Episode 142 - Claire Lehmann - Riding Out the Media Storm

Riding Out the Media Storm: Claire Lehmann

General:
Claire’s writing for Quillette: https://quillette.com/author/clairelehmann/
And for The Australian: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/claire-lehmann

Follow:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairelehmann/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clairequillette/

References:
Eoin Lenihan on Antifa: https://quillette.com/2019/05/29/its-not-your-imagination-the-journalists-writing-about-antifa-are-often-their-cheerleaders/
On the Weinsteins and Ivermectin: https://quillette.com/2022/03/22/on-darkhorse-ivermectin-and-vaccine-hesitancy/
Iona’s Substack: https://drionaitalia.substack.com/
Information on contributing to Quillette: https://quillette.com/contribute/

Timestamps:
1:20 Introductions. Claire’s background studying forensic psychology and why she left academic life and founded Quillette.
5:12 The psychology of political views.
10:10 Quillette’s place in the political landscape. The publication’s most controversial pieces; Antifa, Ivermectin, the heritability of intelligence.
21:35 What happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?
30.28 The capture of the heterodox sphere by American culture and politics. How and why Australia, the UK and Canada differ from the US.
41:35 Claire’s pushback against the use of Australia’s covid policies as a political football in the American culture war.
47:22 Quillette’s controversial reporting on the role of genetics and intelligence.
53:52 Claire’s admiration of Paglia and critiques of post-structuralism.
57.12 The positives and negatives of Substack.
1:02:00 Claire’s decision to leave Twitter and how that has benefited her.
1:05:22 Summing up and outro.
Sound engineering by Justin Ward.
Shownotes by Nicola Muir.