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Investigating the Academy

In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2024 · 15 min read

Lessons from Hannah Arendt on Arresting Our ‘Flight From Reality’

Fascism, communism, and transhumanism all lure us into rejecting the real human condition in favor of ideological constructs.

Roger Berkowitz

19 Sep 2022 · 13 min read

Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back

We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.

Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman

18 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Noble Intentions, Counterproductive Results: The Tragic Inefficacy of a Deontological Policy Approach

The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left.

Scott Newman

26 Nov 2021 · 9 min read

Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology

While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped.

Jonathan Kay

20 Oct 2021 · 16 min read

The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?

Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.

Jonathan Kay

15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

Quillette Podcast 15 – Michael Shermer on Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologies

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to Skeptic editor Michael Shermer about Holocaust denialism, Social Justice Warriors, the importance of bringing reason and science to bear on political debates, and why it is that smart people believe dumb things.

Quillette

7 Feb 2019 · 1 min read

How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry

Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.

Tara Nykyforiak

26 Jan 2019 · 12 min read

The Ideology of Corbynism

As they say in the preface, “This is the first book that sets out to take Corbynism seriously and critically as a semi-coherent set of ideas.”

Tomiwa Owolade

3 Dec 2018 · 6 min read

A Glimpse Into the Ideological Monoculture of Literary New York

According to a newly released analysis of U.S. survey data, only 8% of Americans hold views that mark them as “progressive activists”—versus 92% who may be classified as traditional liberals, moderates, conservatives or “politically disengaged.”

Matthew Binder

15 Nov 2018 · 7 min read