Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

FromQuillette Podcast

Start listening View podcast show

Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

FromQuillette Podcast

ratings:

Length:

48 minutes

Released:

May 25, 2021

Format:

Podcast episode

Description

Quillette founder Claire Lehmann speaks with “Cynical Theories” co-author (and Grievance Studies Hoax collaborator) Helen Pluckrose about the influence of postmodern ideas in the formulation of the latest iterations of Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and other “intersectional” doctrines

Released:

May 25, 2021

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Quillette is an online magazine founded by Australian writer Claire Lehmann. The publication has a primary focus on science, technology, news, culture, and politics.

Skip carousel

Heather Mac Donald talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her experience of being mobbed on campus by Quillette Podcast
57 min listen
Meghan Murphy talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being banned from Twitter for 'dead-naming' by Quillette Podcast
32 min listen
Writer Jesse Singal talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the reaction to his controversial cover story for The Atlantic on trans adolescents by Quillette Podcast
30 min listen
Eric Kaufmann and Ben Cobley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about white privilege, diversity and identity politics by Quillette Podcast
49 min listen
Irshad Manji, a gay, progressive Muslim, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about her new book Don't Label Me by Quillette Podcast
27 min listen
Rob Montz, the filmmaker who is documenting the growing free speech crisis in America's universities, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay by Quillette Podcast
42 min listen
Professor Jeff McMahan talks to Quillette's Toby Young about co-founding the Journal of Controversial Ideas by Quillette Podcast
53 min listen
Bill Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the state of conservative politics by Quillette Podcast
29 min listen
Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy about race as a black college student by Quillette Podcast
42 min listen
Professor Steven Pinker talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about what the critics of his book Enlightenment Now got wrong by Quillette Podcast
41 min listen
Jordan Peterson talks to Quillette's Toby Young about the free speech crisis engulfing North American universities by Quillette Podcast
45 min listen
Claire Fox, veteran journalist and broadcaster, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about standing for the European Parliament as a Brexit Party candidate by Quillette Podcast
56 min listen
Corinna Cohn, a trans software developer, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about why she dissents from Social Justice orthodoxy by Quillette Podcast
38 min listen
Professor Nigel Biggar talks to Quillette's Toby Young about academic outrage mobs and how to defeat them by Quillette Podcast
48 min listen
Stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Titania McGrath, his brilliant satirical creation on Twitter. by Quillette Podcast
31 min listen
Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to Danish expert Kay Xander Mellish on Denmark's rape culture, gender equality and the new, female-Led, right-wing Danish party by Quillette Podcast
19 min listen
Bo Winegard, assistant psychology professor, talks to Quillette's Toby Young about hereditarianism, centrism and the great awokening by Quillette Podcast
59 min listen
Jonathan Church talks to Quillette's Toby Young about 'white privilege' by Quillette Podcast
26 min listen
Skeptic editor Michael Shermer talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about Holocaust denialists, Social Justice Warriors and how to debunk toxic ideologies by Quillette Podcast
31 min listen
Speeches from the Quillette party in Toronto by Quillette Podcast
27 min listen
Doriane Lambelet Coleman talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the Caster Semenya trial by Quillette Podcast
20 min listen
Ted Hill talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how his paper on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis was sent down the memory hole by Quillette Podcast
33 min listen
Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about how black students are let down by a culture of low expectations by Quillette Podcast
17 min listen
Professor Robert Tombs talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit and Britain's future by Quillette Podcast
49 min listen
Kat Rosenfield, young-adult author, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about the recent mobbing of Amélie Wen Zhao, a YA writer forced to shelve her debut novel by Quillette Podcast
20 min listen
Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow talks to Quillette's Toby Young about being investigated by the British police for misgendering a transwoman by Quillette Podcast
29 min listen
Professor Matthew Goodwin talks to Quillette's Toby Young about Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism by Quillette Podcast
56 min listen
Jamie Kilstein talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about leaving the Social Justice cult and becoming a non-tribal comedian by Quillette Podcast
33 min listen
Kathrine Jebsen Moore talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how the knitting community has got tangled up with identity politics by Quillette Podcast
20 min listen
Professor Bruce Gilley talks to Quillette's Toby Young about anti-conservative bias in America's universities by Quillette Podcast
29 min listen

More Episodes from Quillette Podcast

Skip carousel

The (Culture) War Diaries of Nellie Bowles: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with ‘Morning After the Revolution’ author Nellie Bowles about her tragicomic journalistic adventures amid progressive true believers—from the offices of The New York Times to the streets of San Francisco by Quillette Podcast
52 min listen
Recovery from Rape: Quillette podcast host Iona Italia talks to Larissa Phillips about the best ways to prevent rape and promote victims' recovery by Quillette Podcast
59 min listen
Experiencing Autogynephilia: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to self-described 'Transsexual Apostate’ Debbie Hayton about the link between sexual self-attraction and transgender self-identification. by Quillette Podcast
50 min listen
Fighting Back Against Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, ‘The End of Race Politics Arguments for a Colorblind America’ by Quillette Podcast
42 min listen
Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with fellow podcaster Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy. by Quillette Podcast
40 min listen
Is Israel Really Committing Genocide in Gaza?: University of Florida historian Norman Goda tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay why he isn’t persuaded by South Africa’s claims against Israel at the International Court of Justice. by Quillette Podcast
46 min listen
Leaving MAGA: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Rich Logis, a one-time fervent Donald Trump supporter who’s now renounced his MAGA beliefs—and is trying to help others do the same. by Quillette Podcast
32 min listen
The Fine Line Between Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ and Supporting Terrorism: Atlantic magazine writer Michael Powell talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about his latest article—‘The Curious Rise of Settler Colonialism and Turtle Island’—in which he explains how activists are weaponizing fashionable academic doctriness to delegitimize the existence of Israel, the United States, and other Western societies. by Quillette Podcast
33 min listen
How ‘Intersectional Feminism’ Got Hijacked by Men: Veteran feminist activist, author, and pundit Julie Bindel talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the need to protect hard-won women’s rights from gender ideologues. by Quillette Podcast
46 min listen
The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Justinian: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Cambridge University historian Peter Sarris about Justinian the Great, the lowborn sixth-century Byzantine emperor who remade Roman law, suppressed Christian heresies, built architectural wonders, and reconquered lost lands. by Quillette Podcast
67 min listen
The October 7 Terrorist Attacks, in Historical Perspective: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to influential Israeli historian Benny Morris about Hamas’ acts of mass murder, the Israeli response, and the future of Gaza. by Quillette Podcast
26 min listen
Eric Kaufmann’s New ‘Centre for Heterodox Social Science’: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with academic Eric Kaufmann about cancel culture, switching universities, and why academics need to have honest conversations about the down side of immigration. by Quillette Podcast
38 min listen
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie: The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash aka DJ Hookie by Quillette Podcast
67 min listen
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans-Identified Children: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to psychotherapist and book author Stella O’Malley, and parent ‘Josie A.,’ about the need to heed parents’ voices before ‘affirming’ a child’s desire for gender-transition therapies by Quillette Podcast
45 min listen
Tracing the Roots of the Ideological Movement (Formerly) Known as Wokeness: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Johns Hopkins University professor Yascha Mounk about the role of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in shaping today’s illiberal, identity-fixated political mantras—and how we can help lead progressives back to their liberal roots. by Quillette Podcast
60 min listen
Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl: Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl by Quillette Podcast
58 min listen
Understanding Gender Radicalism and White Racial Guilt as Ersatz Religious Movements: Indian-Canadian podcast host Kushal Mehra interviews Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the radicalized beliefs and usettling rituals that now characterize performative progressive politics in Canada and the rest of the Western world. by Quillette Podcast
46 min listen
Talking Science and Substacking in ‘Nash Vegas‘: Podcast host Jonathan Kay shares a Nashville breakfast with journalist Christina Buttons and her Quillette-alumnus boyfriend, Colin Wright, author of the popular Substack, ‘Reality’s Last Stand.’ by Quillette Podcast
26 min listen
When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes a Pretext for Bullying and Harassment: A Tragic Canadian Case Study: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with municipal politician Bill Dennis about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023). by Quillette Podcast
24 min listen
McMaster University’s Imaginary Sex Ring: Uncovering Administrators’ Role in Inflaming a Campus Social Panic: Lawrence Krauss, host of The Origins Podcast, interviews Jonathan Kay about his Quillette investigation into the spread of false rape allegations on a Canadian university campus in 2020. by Quillette Podcast
29 min listen
Eight Hundred Years of Russian Despotism: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to acclaimed historian Orlando Figes, whose new book traces Russia’s political dysfunction back to the age of Byzantium and the Mongol invasion. by Quillette Podcast
50 min listen
Learning From an Ex-White Supremacist: Iona Italia speaks with Henry Rambow, whose ‘Hate No More’ podcast tells the story of ‘Casper,’ a one-time leader of the State Prison Skinheads. by Quillette Podcast
42 min listen
Whom is the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Industry Actually Helping?: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine writer Conor Friedersdorf about his recent article, “The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege” by Quillette Podcast
41 min listen
Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Heather Mac Donald, whose newly published book argues that western civilization’s cultural treasures are being debased in the name of racial equity by Quillette Podcast
48 min listen
Meghan Murphy on Sex, Feminism, Sports, Fast Food, The Walking Dead, Mexico, and Some Like It Hot: ‘The Same Drugs’ podcaster Meghan Murphy and Quillette’s Jonathan Kay explore how COVID, gender bending, and progressive politics have combined to shape a new kind of social tribe. by Quillette Podcast
61 min listen
Kellie-Jay Keen on Protecting Women, and Facing Down Aggressive Gender-Rights Mobs: The British activist once known as Posie Parker talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the assault she endured in New Zealand, why she doesn’t call herself a feminist, and the dangers of the ‘full-on cult’ that has mobilized against her by Quillette Podcast
31 min listen
A Sample Episode from Our New Quillette Narrated Podcast: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal, by Nina Paley: Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal,’ by Nina Paley. Published at Quillette.com on March 27, 2023. Narrated by Corinna Cohn. by Quillette Podcast
8 min listen
Youth Gender Dysphoria and Social Contagion: Exploring the Latest Research: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Northwestern University psychology professor J. Michael Bailey, co-author of the newly published peer-reviewed academic article, ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases’ by Quillette Podcast
32 min listen
Keeping Biological Males Out of Women’s Swimming: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to NCAA backstroke champion-turned-activist Marshi Smith about her years in the pool, the Lia Thomas controversy, and Smith’s campaign to protect the integrity of female sport. by Quillette Podcast
24 min listen
In Defence of the British Empire: Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar, author of a newly published, best-selling book that examines the mixed legacy of British colonial rule. by Quillette Podcast
43 min listen

Related podcast episodes

Skip carousel

The Evolution Of Postmodern Thought | Helen Pluckrose: Helen Pluckrose develops the definition of "Socia… by New Discourses
35 min listen
Gila Ashtor, "Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia" (Fordham UP, 2021): An interview with Gila Ashtor by New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
74 min listen
How to See a Paradigm | Episode 7 by Ancient Future Heart
49 min listen
Gila Ashtor, "Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia" (Fordham UP, 2021): An interview with Gila Ashtor by New Books in Critical Theory
74 min listen
China’s Evolving Political and Economic System: In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Kellee Tsai to discuss her recent articles “Structural Power, Hegemony, and State Capitalism: Limits to China’s Global Economic Power,” published in Politics & Society, and “China’s Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity,” published in International Security. by Pekingology
37 min listen
The Respondent w Helen Pluckrose & Greg Ellis by The Respondent
66 min listen
Gila Ashtor, "Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia" (Fordham UP, 2021): An interview with Gila Ashtor by New Books in Psychoanalysis
74 min listen
Gila Ashtor, "Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia" (Fordham UP, 2021): An interview with Gila Ashtor by New Books in Psychology
74 min listen
Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016): How can we de-colonize critical theory from within, and reimagine the way it grounds its normative claims as well as the way it relates to post- and de-colonial theory? Amy Allen (Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, by New Books in Critical Theory
67 min listen
Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins": The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep… by New Discourses
72 min listen
Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014): As Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University, Bruce Clarke has spent the last decade-plus publishing groundbreaking scholarship introducing the application of second-order systems theory to the analysis of literat... by New Books in Literary Studies
79 min listen
From where we stand: A conversation with Dr. Briana Toole by Many Minds
78 min listen
Helene Landemore, “Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many” (Princeton UP, 2012): We’re all familiar with the thought that democracy is merely the rule of the unwise mob. In the hands of Plato and a long line of philosophers since him, this thought has been developed into a formidable anti-democratic argument: Only truth or wisdom c... by New Books in Philosophy
54 min listen
RE/THINKING RELIGION (PT 1) -- w/ John Vervaeke & Bruce Alderman by The Integral Stage
100 min listen
31/01/22: Rachel Cristy on Commanders and Scientific Labourers: Nietzsche on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Science by Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
50 min listen
Kathryn Lofton, “Consuming Religion” (U. Chicago Press, 2017): Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religio... by New Books in Religion
61 min listen
Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021): An interview with Eva von Redecker by New Books in Critical Theory
65 min listen
Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021): An interview with Eva von Redecker by New Books in Anthropology
65 min listen
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021): An interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm by New Books in Critical Theory
80 min listen
Critical Race Theory and the Orders of Creation: In recent years, there’s been an increase in hysteria about Critical Race Theory in the schools. We discuss the nature of this theory, the ways we ought to engage the subject in our current context, and the ways in which the theology of the... by Protect Your Noggin
42 min listen
Power: Feminism & Foucault w/ Dr. Amy Allen by Social Science for Public Good
75 min listen
METAMODELS: Into the Wilberness w/ Ken Wilber by The Integral Stage
120 min listen
Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Tao Jiang by New Books in Chinese Studies
125 min listen
Nicholas Vrousalis, “The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015): In his book The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) provides a thorough and complex reconstruction of G.A. Cohen’s political philosophical project. by New Books in Critical Theory
59 min listen
Christopher Hookway, “The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism” (Oxford UP, 2012): Charles Sanders Peirce was the founder of the philosophical tradition known as pragmatism. He is also the proponent of a distinctive variety of pragmatism that has at its core a logical rule that has come to be known as “the pragmatic maxim. by New Books in Philosophy
67 min listen
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021): An interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm by New Books in Literary Studies
80 min listen
Energy, cooperation, and our species' future: Welcome back folks! The new season of Many Minds is quickly ramping up. On today’s episode we’re thrilled to be rejoined by . Michael is Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. He’s an unusually... by Many Minds
81 min listen
22: The Antichrist, part 1: An Attempt at the Revaluation of Values by The Nietzsche Podcast
88 min listen
Steven J. Ellman, “When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought” (Karnac, 2010): There are theorists who seem to strive for integration and those who insist on fundamental differences, incompatibilities, and unbridgeable gulfs. Some write from an interdisciplinary position, exulting in hybridity and increased potentiality, by New Books in Psychoanalysis
56 min listen
Wendell Berry: Piety and the Environment w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Joshua Hochschild: Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsp… by The Thomistic Institute
44 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

Author Helen Pluckrose on the Role of Postmodernism in the Construction of Modern Social-Justice Dogmas

Description

Titles in the series (100)

More Episodes from Quillette Podcast

Related podcast episodes