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Welcome to the Quilett Podcast.

I'm Jonathan Kay here with a few brief words before stepping aside

so you can listen to Quilett founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehman interview

England-based author Helen Plucrose. Many of you will know Helen is the former

editor of Ario magazine and one of the three brains behind the so-called Grievance Studies

hoax in 2018, in which Helen and two collaborators submitted hilariously bogus social justice

papers to super progressive academic journals and got many of them published.

Since then, Helen has co-authored a best-selling 20 book called Synical Theories,

how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity

and why this harms everybody. She also started an organization called Counterweight,

which helps console and train individuals who are targeted by social justice mobs.

In this interview, adapted from a performance that Claire and Helen conducted as part of the free thought live live events that Colette recently hosted with Australian-based thinking,

Helen goes beyond mere denunciations of cancel culture and looks at the intellectual roots of social justice ideology.

In particular, she discusses the way that the postmodern intellectual currents of the 1970s

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