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Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in
Quillette Podcast 60
Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere.
A small group of journalists have falsely smeared the world's top YouTuber as a Nazi sympathizer.
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding.
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here.
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Social media has sped time up. In the world of Twitter, outrage is instantaneous, and deliberation impossible.
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.