Addressing the Academic Skew
Higher education needs intellectual—not political—conservatives.
Jesse Smith
· 6 min read
Woke
A collection of 10 posts
Podcast #304: The End of Woke
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to author Andrew Doyle about his new book, ‘The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution.’
Quillette, Andrew Doyle, Iona Italia
· 55 min read
How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent | Quillette Cetera Ep. 51
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.
Zoe Booth
· 27 min read
An Unscientific American
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
Michael Shermer
· 12 min read
Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism
Why Canada’s largest school board is seeking to administer an ideologically skewed census to its students.
Ian Cooper
· 14 min read
Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them
The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 21 min read
Podcast #167: Vivek Ramaswamy on the 'Woke Smoke' Blown by Corporate America
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with 36-year-old biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy about how corporate elites burnish their progressive bona fides (and distract their critics) with anti-racism slogans and hashtags—instead of taking concrete steps to address real inequalities within their organizations.
Quillette, Vivek Ramaswamy
· 1 min read
Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.
Janet Mackay
· 8 min read
Quillette Podcast 45 – Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Became the Woke Capital of America
Jonathan Kay talks to journalist and YouTuber Nancy Rommelmann about how Portland became the most woke city in America, a phenomenon she wrote about recently for Tablet. She provides an update on the targeting of her husband’s coffee shop by an outrage mob after she expressed some reservations about
Quillette, Nancy Rommelmann
· 1 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read