The Hope Axis #6 Claire Lehmann: Free Thought, Inquiry, Intellectuals

Описание: #press #freespeech #freepress #editing #journalism #truth

Quillette founding editor Claire Lehmann joined me for this exceptional episode where we dive into all the conditions, ideals, and effort that ensure that a new magazine dedicated to democracy and free speech can achieve its goals.

00:00 Intro - Quillette (political) and Interintellect (apolitical), our hopes and why we're doing what we do
02:07 How the world looked in 2015 when Quillette started: lack of conservative outlets, one sided conversations on gender, religion, family
5:33 What it meant to be a centrist in 2016 versus now - The joys and perils of being a contrarian
9:16 Disgruntled American academics as a media market - The article that went so viral it crashed Quillette's first server - The need for refreshing heterodox writing
14:13 How Australia and Canada became havens of heterodoxy before Substack appeared and made it easier for "intellectual orphans" to publish freely
15:57 Why it happened on Substack and not Twitter - The importance of helping writers/academics make a living - Bari Weiss, scapegoats, and how we got over cancel culture
19:38 The dangers and hypocrisy of spreading hopelessness - The falseness of glorifying the past - The benefits of walking around old cemeteries and seeing at what age people used to die
28:46 Aspects of modernity Claire is critical of but her overall view that science, technology, and the free market enhance our lives
30:02 How topics have been changing on Quillette throughout the years and why - The beauty of the measured tone
36:31 Social media and the media - Claire's adventures on Twitter - The temptations and pitfalls of trying to go viral
44:08 What Claire learned when she left Twitter for a while - The value of hiatuses and the blessings of staying connected
48:07 Not being in the US: it's liberating to be in a less polarised place, but hard to not be in the centre of commerce and capital
50:42 Claire's predictions about the future and biotech

Links:
https://quillette.com
https://x.com/clairlemon/
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/auth...
https://www.bariweiss.com/free-press
https://mubi.com/en/us/films/chaotic-ana
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mort...
https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-...