Quillette

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Quillette
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Editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann
Senior editor, London Jamie Palmer
Canadian editor, Toronto Jonathan Kay
Associate editor, London Toby Young
Staff writers Helen Dale
Debra W. Soh
Jeffrey Tayler[1][2]
Categories Politics, culture, sciences, and technology[3]
Publisher Claire Lehmann
Founder Claire Lehmann
Year founded 2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Country Australia
Based in Sydney, Australia
Language English
Website quillette.com

Quillette (/kwɪˈlɛt/) is an online magazine founded by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. The publication has a primary focus on science, technology, news, culture, and politics.

Etymology

Quillette is named after the French word for a withy cutting planted so that it takes root—used here as a metaphor for an essay.[4]

History

Quillette was launched in October 2015 in Sydney, Australia, by Claire Lehmann.[5][better source needed] The website drew significant public attention on 7 August 2017 after publishing the responses of four scientists (Lee Jussim, David P. Schmitt, Geoffrey Miller and Debra W. Soh)[6] to James Damore's controversial memo "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber".[7][8][9] The website was temporarily shut down by a DDoS attack following publication of the piece.[10][11]

In 2018 Quillette said that they were funded mostly by contributions from readers via Patreon, and a small part (less than 5%) of the revenue came from Amazon affiliates and other advertisers.[12]

Reception and ideology

In an interview with Psychology Today, Quillette founder Claire Lehmann said the magazine provides "an alternative to the blank slate view... very common in left-leaning media."[13] Bari Weiss has called Claire Lehmann a member of the Intellectual dark web.[14][15]

In 2016 Jerry Coyne compared it to the longer-established site Slate, "but more serious, more intellectual, and without any Regressive Leftism".[16] In an article for The Outline, writer Gaby Del Valle classifies Quillette as "libertarian-leaning", "academia-focused" and "a hub for reactionary thought."[17] In the Seattle newspaper, The Stranger, Katie Herzog writes that it has won praise "from both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins" adding that "most of the contributors are academics but the site reads more like a well researched opinion section than an academic journal."[18][19][20] In an opinion piece for USA Today, columnist Cathy Young describes Quillette as "libertarian-leaning".[7] Articles in Vice and PJ Media describe Quillette as a libertarian publication.[21][22]

Writing for The Guardian, Jason Wilson describes Quillette as "a website obsessed with the alleged war on free speech on campus".[23] Writing for The Washington Post, Aaron Hanlon describes Quillette as a "magazine obsessed with the evils of 'critical theory' and postmodernism".[24] Writing for New York's column The Daily Intelligencer Andrew Sullivan describes Quillette as "refreshingly heterodox".[25] In a piece for Slate, Daniel Engber suggested that while some of its output was "excellent and interesting", the average Quillette story "is dogmatic, repetitious, and a bore". He wrote that it describes "even modest harms inflicted via groupthink—e.g., dropped theater projects, flagging book sales, condemnatory tweets—as 'serious adversity'", arguing that various authors in Quillette engage in the same victim mentality that they attempt to criticize.[16]

Additional projects

Podcast

Quillette Podcast
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Presentation
Hosted by Quillette Staff
Genre Science, technology, news, culture, politics
Updates Weekly
Length Variable
Production
Production Claire Lehmann
No. of episodes 12
Publication
Debut November 8, 2018; 5 years ago (November 8, 2018)

Quillette publishes an eponymous podcast.

There is also a loosely-associated podcast called Wrongspeak, which launched in May 2018 and is hosted by Quillette associate editor Jonathan Kay and Debra W. Soh. Wrongspeak is about "the things we believe to be true but cannot say".[26][18]

Topics on these podcasts have included psychological differences between men and women, freedom of speech on campus, gender dysphoria in children and American politics/culture. Notable guests have included James Damore, Lindsay Shepherd, Susan Bradley, Ed the Sock, Adrienne Batra and David Frum.[27]

In May 2018, The Stranger praised Wrongspeak for its willingness to engage with difficult topics.[18]

See also

References

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External links

  • Official website
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