A collection of 38 posts
The Albanese government's proposed Digital Duty of Care laws would give regulators sweeping powers over online content, threatening free speech in Australia and setting a dangerous precedent for internet regulation worldwide.
A thrash-metal classic turns forty.
There is a rather large difference between the banned books promoted by celebrities and genuinely transgressive and provocative writing.
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship.
In her early comedy career, Sarah Silverman mocked bigots by impersonating them. What could possibly go wrong?
The century-old moral panics and persecutions by Anthony Comstock and the Society for the Suppression of Vice are echoed today by cancellation campaigns from the moralistic Left and Right.
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
Jonathan Kay speaks with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss about his latest book project, in which renowned scholars speak out about threats to open inquiry and the scientific process.
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.
As literary gatekeeping intensifies in the age of social media, author and Harvard fellow Adam Szetela joins Zoe to unpack how moral panics, elite ideology, and institutional cowardice are transforming publishing—and why the culture wars are being fought sentence by sentence.
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the three radioactive political topics that can derail an artist’s career.
Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.
In 2021, Canadians were told that the remains of 215 Indigenous children had been found at a former school. The story turned out to be false—but no one in authority seems to know how to walk it back.