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
Woke
A collection of 7 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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