Quillette: Difference between revisions

| founder = [[Claire Lehmann]]

''Quillette'' has published articles supporting or discussing many ideas present within the "[[human biodiversity movement]]" (HBM),<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-23 |title=On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism |url=https://quillette.com/2016/06/23/on-the-reality-of-race-and-the-abhorrence-of-racism/ |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=Quillette |language=en |archive-date=26 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226175641/https://quillette.com/2016/06/23/on-the-reality-of-race-and-the-abhorrence-of-racism/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-09 |title=On the Reality of Race & the Abhorrence of Racism Part II: Human Biodiversity & Its Implications |url=https://quillette.com/2016/08/09/on-the-reality-of-race-the-abhorrence-of-racism-part-ii-human-biodiversity-its-implications/ |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=Quillette |language=en |archive-date=26 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226175639/https://quillette.com/2016/08/09/on-the-reality-of-race-the-abhorrence-of-racism-part-ii-human-biodiversity-its-implications/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which attempts to reintroduce ideas from [[eugenics]] and [[scientific racism]] into the mainstream.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Minkowitz |first1=Donna |title=Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for 'Quillette' |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/quillette-fascist-creep/ |access-date=30 April 2023 |work=The Nation |date=5 December 2019 |archive-date=17 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417225618/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/quillette-fascist-creep/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="jones_20200102">{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/eugenic-ideas-never-really-went-away.html |title=Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? |website=New York Magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Sarah |date=2 January 2020 |access-date=21 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222003336/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/eugenic-ideas-never-really-went-away.html |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- low-quality sources- no direct links to or quotes from the alleged articles --> HBM refers to beliefs that human behaviors are impactedaffected by inherited genes, and certain predispositions are unique to certain ethnic groups.<ref name="jones_20200102"/><ref name="richards_2021">{{Cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Imogen |title=Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy |last2=Jones |first2=Callum |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=978-1003105176 |location=London |pages=126–127 |chapter=Quillette, classical liberalism, and the international New Right}}</ref> Authors who published articles in ''Quillette'' supporting these claims include Bo Winegard, Ben Winegard, [[John Paul Wright]], and [[Brian Boutwell]].<ref name="richards_2021"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-03-27 |title=A Tale of Two Bell Curves |url=https://quillette.com/2017/03/27/a-tale-of-two-bell-curves/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Quillette |language=en |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228120135/https://quillette.com/2017/03/27/a-tale-of-two-bell-curves/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-23 |title=On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism |url=https://quillette.com/2016/06/23/on-the-reality-of-race-and-the-abhorrence-of-racism/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Quillette |language=en |archive-date=26 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226175641/https://quillette.com/2016/06/23/on-the-reality-of-race-and-the-abhorrence-of-racism/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Quillette'' published articles supporting [[Noah Carl]].<ref name="jones_20200102"/><ref name="richards_2021"/>

In a piece for ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', Daniel Engber suggested that while some of its output was "excellent and interesting", the average ''Quillette'' story "is dogmatic, repetitious, and a bore".<ref name=slate/> 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 criticise.<ref name=slate>{{cite web |url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/quillette-claire-lehmann-intellectual-dark-web.html |title=Free Thought for the Closed-Minded |last=Engber |first=Daniel |date=8 January 2019 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=9 January 2019 |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127104951/https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/quillette-claire-lehmann-intellectual-dark-web.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In an article for ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', writer Alex Leo described ''Quillette'' as "a site that fancies itself intellectually contrarian but mostly publishes [[right-wing]] talking points couched in [[politics of resentment|grievance politics]]".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/quillette-ben-shapiro-and-the-myth-of-conservative-facts|title=Quillette, Ben Shapiro, and the Myth of Conservative 'Facts'|last=Leo|first=Alex|date=23 March 2019|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=20 June 2019|language=en|archive-date=16 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116183745/https://www.thedailybeast.com/quillette-ben-shapiro-and-the-myth-of-conservative-facts|url-status=live}}</ref>