A collection of 13 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives.
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.
Two years after being falsely smeared as a white supremacist by a diversity trainer, a longtime school principal committed suicide
It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values
To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption.
Trumpeting your wokeness—or anti-wokeness—won’t do anything to fix society’s problems.
Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychology professor Christopher J. Ferguson about his newly published academic paper, Are Orcs Racist? Dungeons and Dragons, Ethnocentrism, Anxiety, and the Depiction of ‘Evil’ Monsters.
These are terrifying words. They’re also at best debatable, arguably simply untrue.
The bigger problem was that its edict wasn’t about diversity at all. It was about corporate opportunism: seizing an already popular social value and prominently emblazoning it with the Goldman Sachs logo.
Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports Cancel Culture
It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.