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In May 2019, ''Quillette'' sub-editor and writer [[Andy Ngo]] said he was pepper-sprayed by an [[Antifa (United States)|Antifa]] activist while documenting a scuffle between Antifa and [[far-right politics|far-right]] group [[Patriot Prayer]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Danielle |title=Antifa, far-right groups clash outside Portland bar after ‘peaceful’ May Day protests |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-far-right-fight-portland-bar-protests |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |date=May 2, 2019}}</ref> Later that year, a video emerged of Ngo with the far-right group shortly before an attack on patrons at a bar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/andy-ngo-patriot-prayer-attack/|title=Andy Ngo seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members plan an attack in newly emerged video|author=Sierra Juarez|date=24 August 2019|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref> On June 29, 2019, Ngo was assaulted by unidentified assailants in Portland while filming antifascist protestors.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proud-boys-rally-portland-latest-test-police-n1043526|title=Proud Boys rally in Portland is latest test for police|last1=Burns|first1=Dasha|date=August 16, 2019|work=|access-date=August 29, 2019|publisher=[[NBC News]]|last2=Brooks|first2=Abigail|quote=Chaos also broke out during a rally in June, when masked antifa members physically attacked conservative blogger Andy Ngo in an incident shared on social media.|last3=Ortiz|first3=Erik}}</ref> |
In May 2019, ''Quillette'' sub-editor and writer [[Andy Ngo]] said he was pepper-sprayed by an [[Antifa (United States)|Antifa]] activist while documenting a scuffle between Antifa and [[far-right politics|far-right]] group [[Patriot Prayer]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Danielle |title=Antifa, far-right groups clash outside Portland bar after ‘peaceful’ May Day protests |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-far-right-fight-portland-bar-protests |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=July 1, 2019 |date=May 2, 2019}}</ref> Later that year, a video emerged of Ngo with the far-right group shortly before an attack on patrons at a bar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/andy-ngo-patriot-prayer-attack/|title=Andy Ngo seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members plan an attack in newly emerged video|author=Sierra Juarez|date=24 August 2019|work=The Daily Dot}}</ref> On June 29, 2019, Ngo was assaulted by unidentified assailants in Portland while filming antifascist protestors.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proud-boys-rally-portland-latest-test-police-n1043526|title=Proud Boys rally in Portland is latest test for police|last1=Burns|first1=Dasha|date=August 16, 2019|work=|access-date=August 29, 2019|publisher=[[NBC News]]|last2=Brooks|first2=Abigail|quote=Chaos also broke out during a rally in June, when masked antifa members physically attacked conservative blogger Andy Ngo in an incident shared on social media.|last3=Ortiz|first3=Erik}}</ref> |
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On August 26, 2019, [[The Daily Beast]] reported that Ngo was leaving Quillette after the [[Portland Mercury]] published a video of Ngo with members of Patriot Prayer as they planned violence at a bar frequented by left-wing activists.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |title=Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears |website=Daily Beast |publisher=IAC |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> Lehmann, told The Daily Beast that Ngo had left a few weeks earlier of his own accord.<ref name="sommer2019" /> |
On August 26, 2019, [[The Daily Beast]] reported that Ngo was leaving Quillette after the [[Portland Mercury]] published a video of Ngo with members of Patriot Prayer as they planned violence at a bar frequented by left-wing activists.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |title=Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears |website=Daily Beast |publisher=IAC |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> Lehmann, told The Daily Beast that Ngo had left a few weeks earlier of his own accord.<ref name="sommer2019" /> |
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Editor-in-chief | Claire Lehmann |
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Senior editor, London | Jamie Palmer |
Canadian editor, Toronto | Jonathan Kay |
Associate editor, London | Toby Young |
European Editor, Stockholm | Paulina Neuding |
Staff writers | Helen Dale Debra W. Soh Jeffrey Tayler[1][2] |
Categories | Politics, culture, sciences, and technology[3] |
Publisher | Claire Lehmann |
Founder | Claire Lehmann |
Founded | 2015 |
Country | Australia |
Based in | Sydney, Australia |
Language | English |
Website | quillette |
Quillette (/kwɪˈlɛt/) is an online magazine founded by Australian journalist Claire Lehmann. The publication has a primary focus on science, technology, news, culture, and politics. The magazine also publishes two podcasts including the eponymous podcast Quilette and Wrongspeak. Its editorial line is generally libertarian and is associated with the intellectual dark web.[3][4]
Initially focused on science, politics and culture Quillette is known for controversial coverage of political and cultural issues concerning speech and identity politics.
History
Quillette was launched in October 2015 in Sydney, Australia, by Claire Lehmann.[5] It is named after the French word for a withy cutting planted so that it takes root—used here as a metaphor for an essay.[6]
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) to James Damore's controversial memo "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber". The website was temporarily shut down by a DDoS attack following publication of the piece.[7]
Ideology
Quillette founder Claire Lehmann stated that the site was created with the aim of “setting up a space where we could critique the blank slate orthodoxy”, going on to say that Quillette “has naturally evolved into a place where people critique other aspects of what they see as left-wing orthodoxy.”[8] Bari Weiss has called Claire Lehmann a member of the intellectual dark web.[9][10]
Reception
In an article for The Outline, writer Gaby Del Valle classifies Quillette as "libertarian-leaning", "academia-focused" and "a hub for reactionary thought."[11] 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."[12][13][14] In an opinion piece for USA Today, columnist Cathy Young describes Quillette as "libertarian-leaning".[15] An article in Vice described Quillette as a libertarian publication.[16]
Writing for The Guardian, Jason Wilson describes Quillette as "a website obsessed with the alleged war on free speech on campus".[17] Writing for The Washington Post, Aaron Hanlon describes Quillette as a "magazine obsessed with the evils of 'critical theory' and postmodernism".[18] Writing for New York's column The Daily Intelligencer Andrew Sullivan describes Quillette as "refreshingly heterodox".[19] 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.[20]
In a Daily Beast article, Alex Leo described Quillette as "a site that fancies itself intellectually contrarian but mostly publishes right-wing talking points couched in grievance politics".[21]
Controversies
The grievance studies affair
In a profile of Quillette, Politico reported that founder Claire Lehmann knew about the Grievance studies affair before it was first reported in October of 2018, and was part of planning how to "fan the flames" of that controversy with their subsequent story in favor of the hoax.[3][22]
Eoin Lenihan
In May 2019, Quillette published an article by Eoin Lenihan that alleged connections between Antifa activists and national-level reporters who cover the far-right.[23] A number of journalists received death threats after the claims were published.[24]
Andy Ngo
In May 2019, Quillette sub-editor and writer Andy Ngo said he was pepper-sprayed by an Antifa activist while documenting a scuffle between Antifa and far-right group Patriot Prayer.[25] Later that year, a video emerged of Ngo with the far-right group shortly before an attack on patrons at a bar.[26] On June 29, 2019, Ngo was assaulted by unidentified assailants in Portland while filming antifascist protestors.[27]
On August 26, 2019, The Daily Beast reported that Ngo was leaving Quillette after the Portland Mercury published a video of Ngo with members of Patriot Prayer as they planned violence at a bar frequented by left-wing activists.[28] Lehmann, told The Daily Beast that Ngo had left a few weeks earlier of his own accord.[29]
DSA Hoax
In August 2019, Quilette inadvertently published and made further contributions to a hoax article "DSA Is Doomed". The magazine retracted the article after the hoax was brought to their attention. The hoax brought the fact-checking and editorial standards of the magazine into question.[30]
Podcasts
Quillette publishes an eponymous podcast that began in 2018. The 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".[31][12]
Notable guests have included Jordan Peterson, Coleman Hughes, James Damore, Lindsay Shepherd, Susan Bradley, Ed the Sock, Adrienne Batra, Steven Pinker, Bill Kristol, Michael Shermer, Matthew Goodwin, Irshad Manji, Sir Roger Scruton, Claire Fox, Francis Fukuyama, Peter Boghossian, Douglas Murray, Brian C. Kalt, and David Frum.[32][33][34]
References
- ^ "Who We Are". Quillette. June 27, 2018. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ "About". Quillette. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ a b c Lester, Amelia. "The Voice of the 'Intellectual Dark Web': Claire Lehmann's online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing 'dangerous' ideas other outlets won't touch. How far is it willing to go?". Politico Magazine (November/December 2018). ISSN 2381-1595.
- ^ Beauchamp, Zack (July 3, 2019). "The assault on conservative journalist Andy Ngo, explained". Vox. Archived from the original on August 7, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^ Duke, Jennifer (May 1, 2019). "'Huge gap in the market': the local publisher winning where others won't tread". The Sydney Morning-Herald. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ Lehmann, Claire (July 7, 2018). "From the Editor". Quillette. Archived from the original on October 1, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
In French, a synonym for quillette is bouture d'osier, which is a type of wood off-cutting used to grow new trees. An off-cutting planted in the ground that grows into a tree — this seemed to me a great metaphor for an essay.
- ^ Duke, Jennifer (May 1, 2019). "'Huge gap in the market': the local publisher winning where others won't tread". The Sydney Morning-Herald. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ Lester, Amelia. "The Voice of the 'Intellectual Dark Web': Claire Lehmann's online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing 'dangerous' ideas other outlets won't touch. How far is it willing to go?". Politico Magazine (November/December 2018). ISSN 2381-1595.
Contributors often shared Lehmann's interest in debunking the "blank slate" theory of human development, which postulates that individuals are largely products of nurture, not nature. But, Lehmann told me, it quickly grew beyond that topic. In "setting up a space where we could critique the blank slate orthodoxy," she says, Quillette "has naturally evolved into a place where people critique other aspects of what they see as left-wing orthodoxy."
- ^ Weiss, Bari (May 8, 2018). "Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
Other figures in the I.D.W., like Claire Lehmann, the founder and editor of the online magazine Quillette, and Debra Soh, who has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, self-deported from the academic track, sensing that the spectrum of acceptable perspectives and even areas of research was narrowing.
- ^ Edroso, Roy (May 14, 2018). "Conservatives Cheer the Latest Right-Wing Supergroup, the Intellectual Dark Web". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
IDW superheroes include ... Claire Lehmann, who believes 'nationalism is the antidote to racism', and claims to have been 'blacklisted' for 'criticizing feminism' ...
- ^ Del Valle, Gaby (September 22, 2017). "Conservatives love playing the victim". The Outline. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
In an interview with Psychology Today last week, Claire Lehmann, the founder of the libertarian-leaning, academia-focused digital magazine Quillette, suggested that the website was a refuge from the political correctness and leftist bias that allegedly plague both academia and the mainstream media.
- ^ a b Herzog, Katie (May 31, 2018). "Wrongspeak Is a Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas". The Stranger. Archived from the original on June 8, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
Most of the contributors are academics but the site reads more like a well researched opinion section than an academic journal.
- ^ Dawkins, Richard [@RichardDawkins] (July 25, 2017). "Quillette, superb online magazine, stands up for the oppressed minority who value clarity, logic and objective truth" (Tweet). Retrieved October 2, 2018 – via Twitter.
- ^ Pinker, Steven [@sapinker] (September 17, 2017). "The story behind Quillette, one of the most stimulating & original new web magazines" (Tweet). Retrieved October 2, 2018 – via Twitter.
- ^ Young, Cathy (August 8, 2017). "Googler fired for diversity memo had legit points on gender". USA Today. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- ^ Matsakis, Louise; Koeblerand, Jason; Emerson, Sarah (August 7, 2017). "Here Are the Citations for the Anti-Diversity Manifesto Circulating at Google". Vice. Archived from the original on September 30, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
The author also used news articles from outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, as well as smaller publications like libertarian magazine Quillette.
- ^ Wilson, Jason (March 18, 2018). "How to troll the left: understanding the rightwing outrage machine". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 6, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
Nevertheless, along with spreading the video, Ngo wrung from the evening an article for Quillette, a website obsessed with the alleged war on free speech on campus.
- ^ Hanlon, Aaron (August 31, 2018). "Postmodernism didn't cause Trump. It explains him". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 30, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
In Quillette — an online magazine obsessed with the evils of 'critical theory' and postmodernism — Matt McManus reflects on 'The Emergence and Rise of Postmodern Conservatism.'
- ^ Sullivan, Andrew (September 21, 2018). "America, Land of Brutal Binaries". New York. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
As Claire Lehmann, the founding editor of the refreshingly heterodox new website Quillette has put it, 'the Woke Left has a moral hierarchy with white men at the bottom.'
- ^ Engber, Daniel (January 8, 2019). "Free Thought for the Closed-Minded". Slate. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- ^ Leo, Alex (March 23, 2019). "Quillette, Ben Shapiro, and the Myth of Conservative 'Facts'". Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ Bartlett, Tom (May 22, 2019). "Opinion: The Academy's New Favorite Hate-Read". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Lenihan, Eoin (May 29, 2019). "It's Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders". Quillette. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
- ^ Burley, Shane; Ross, Alexander (June 19, 2019). "Opinion: What happened when I was the target of alt-right death threats". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
- ^ Wallace, Danielle (May 2, 2019). "Antifa, far-right groups clash outside Portland bar after 'peaceful' May Day protests". Fox News. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
- ^ Sierra Juarez (August 24, 2019). "Andy Ngo seen laughing as Patriot Prayer members plan an attack in newly emerged video". The Daily Dot.
- ^ Burns, Dasha; Brooks, Abigail; Ortiz, Erik (August 16, 2019). "Proud Boys rally in Portland is latest test for police". NBC News. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
Chaos also broke out during a rally in June, when masked antifa members physically attacked conservative blogger Andy Ngo in an incident shared on social media.
- ^ Sommer, Will. "Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces". Daily Beast. IAC. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Freedman, Aaron (August 8, 2019). "Exclusive: We Found Archie Carter". Jacobin. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
- ^ "Wrongspeak". Quillette. May 14, 2018. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
- ^ "Wrongspeak Podcast". SoundCloud. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
- ^ "Quillette Podcast on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Podcast Archives". Quillette. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
External links
- Official website
- Lester, Amelia (2018), "The Voice of the 'Intellectual Dark Web'", Politico