Toby Young
General Secretary of the Free Speech Union (https://t.co/K9qYN2Jcuq) Editor of Lockdown Sceptics (https://t.co/Wi6Ndv62Cq) Associate Editor of the Spectator
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Toby Young
“Looking for a great new book to read? I recommend Panics and Persecutions: 20 Quillette Tales of Excommunication in the Digital Age. https://t.co/2Byq7jYih1 https://t.co/aSesMgYmXl” (from X)
In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine - founded in 2015 by Australian-based journalist Claire Lehmann - has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity. Panics and Persecutions brings together a collection of especially compelling Quillette narratives, spanning subcultures from computer science to romance literature. These stories lay bare the human toll of modern ideological inquisitions, often in deeply personal terms-and demonstrate the urgency of Quillette's editorial mission to create a space where free thought lives. Edited by Claire Lehmann, Colin Wright, Jamie Palmer, Jonathan Kay and Toby Young.