Panics and Persecutions

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.