Claire Lehmann: Riding Out the Media Storm – Areo – Areo Magazine

In this episode of ourTwo for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to the indomitable Claire Lehmann ofQuilletteabout the magazines place in the intellectual landscape, its biggest controversies, the audience capture of the Intellectual Dark Web and the Australian perspective on world politics. You can also listen to this podcast on Spotify and iTunes.

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

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

References:Eoin Lenihan on Antifa:quillette.com/2019/05/29/its-notheir-cheerleaders/On the Weinsteins and Ivermectin:quillette.com/2022/03/22/on-darkvaccine-hesitancy/Ionas Substack:drionaitalia.substack.com/Information on contributing to Quillette:quillette.com/contribute/

Timestamps:1:20 Introductions. Claires background studying forensic psychology and why she left academic life and founded Quillette.5:12 The psychology of political views.10:10 Quillettes place in the political landscape. The publications 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 Claires pushback against the use of Australias covid policies as a political football in the American culture war.47:22 Quillettes controversial reporting on the role of genetics and intelligence.53:52 Claires admiration of Camille Paglia and critiques of post-structuralism.57.12 The positives and negatives of Substack.1:02:00 Claires 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.

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