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Sep 24, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Justo Antonio Triana |Dennis Saffran |Daniel McGraw |Daniel Mcgraw
Justo Antonio Triana is a Cuban poet, novelist, and free speech advocate. He is studying classical civilisation at Syracuse University and is interning with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Cuba’s Imprisoned TruthAn interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera. In this conversation, Justo reflects on his experience growing up in Cuba under a dictatorship, highlighting the pervasive poverty and lack of freedom.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Brad Strotten |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana
Graham Linehan has experienced cancel culture firsthand. Once praised for his work writing and co-writing popular TV shows "Father Ted," "Black Books," and "The IT Crowd", Graham faced severe personal and career repercussions once he started voicing concern about unscientific gender ideology. Graham is in Australia to promote his new memoir, Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy. His tour is being organised by friends of Quillette, the Free Speech Union of Australia.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brad Strotten |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith |Bradley Strotten
John Braine was born 102 years ago today, a couple of months before Kingsley Amis (whose 100th birthday was celebrated here). Yet while Amis has remained a part of the British literary consciousness, Braine has fallen into comparative obscurity. Today, he is remembered chiefly—and perhaps only—for his debut novel, Room at the Top.
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Apr 13, 2024 | quillette.com | Brad Strotten |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith |Bradley Strotten
John Braine was born 102 years ago today, a couple of months before Kingsley Amis (whose 100th birthday was celebrated here). Yet while Amis has remained a part of the British literary consciousness, Braine has fallen into comparative obscurity. Today, he is remembered chiefly—and perhaps only—for his debut novel, Room at the Top.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Judith Butler |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith
A review of Who’s Afraid of Genderby Judith Butler, 620 pages, Penguin (March 2024). Philosopher Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has endorsed Judith Butler’s latest book as follows:Judith Butler is the most important philosopher working in the United States today, and the one whose legacy is most likely to survive the test of time.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith |Robin Hanson |Charlotte Allen
In December 2021, Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a Cuban court for participating in the mass protests of July 11 and 12. He was 21 years old when he began his sentence and he’s the father of two young daughters. According to a report in Foreign Policy:[On July 11], tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the island to protest skyrocketing prices of essential goods. It was the largest event of civil unrest in Cuba since the 1990s.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Benjamin Kerstein |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. ~Albert Camus I. Today’s social-media landscape—a phantasmagoric combination of cruel panopticon and giant video game replete with pornographic sex and livestreamed atrocity—would not have surprised British novelist James Graham Ballard, whose books prophesied our obsessions with voyeurism and violence a half-century ago.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Larissa Phillips |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith
Thirty-one years ago, I was raped while I was living in Italy. I was 23 years old. I have never written about this experience publicly before, but I decided to do so after I read a long essay in the politics and culture journal Liberties titled, “After a Rape: A Guide for the Tormented.” That essay is written by the journal’s managing editor Celeste Marcus, and it details her recovery process following an alleged sexual assault two and a half years ago.
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Feb 21, 2023 | 
thecollegefix.com | Justo Antonio Triana
College Fix contributor Justo Antonio Triana, a sophomore at Syracuse University, is an opinion columnist for the Daily Orange student newspaper. He recently submitted an op-ed arguing that Syracuse University is censoring or endorsing free speech on campus based solely on ideology, infringing on the rights of faculty and students and the quality of education there. He suggests in his column the adoption of the Chicago Principles.
