Claire Lehmann

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The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.

Sex and the academy, three paths to despotism, and 200 years of Stendhal

Dear Quilletters, This week, don’t miss Jim Rutt’s excellent essay Musk and Moderation, which gives practical advice to Musk on how best to moderate discussion forums with the aim of fostering free speech. Rutt is a veteran of the Internet Age with over 40 years’ experience moderating online commu…

The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.

In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine—founded in 2015 by Australia-based journalist Claire Lehmann—has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity. Panics and Persecutions brings together a collection of especially compelling Quillette narratives, spanning subcultures from computer science to romance literature. These stories lay bare the human toll of m

Listen to highlights from the speeches made at Quillette‘s party in Toronto by Quillette founder Claire Lehmann, stand-up comic Jamie Kilstein, Skeptic editor Michael Shermer, Quillette‘s Canadian editor Jonathan Kay, author and philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers and Quillette‘s associate editor Toby Young. Thanks to Holding Space Films for supplying us with the audio.

A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.