Claire Lehmann

Claire Lehmann (née Jensen; born 1985) is an Australian journalist and the founding editor of Quillette.

Claire Lehmann
Lehmann on Rebel Wisdom in 2019
Born
Claire Jensen

(1985-07-18) 18 July 1985
Adelaide, South Australia
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
OccupationJournalist
Known forFounding Quillette magazine
TitleEditor-in-chief of Quillette
Websiteclairelehmann.net

Personal life

Born 18 July 1985,[1] Lehmann is the daughter of a former teacher and a speech pathologist who was raised in Adelaide, South Australia.[2] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English from the University of Adelaide with first-class honours in 2010. Lehmann was then a graduate student in psychology, but dropped out after having a child. She is married and has two children.[3] She is the daughter-in-law of the poet Geoffrey Lehmann.[4]

Career

Lehmann founded the online magazine Quillette in October 2015.[5] According to the newspaper The Australian, Lehmann's story about the controversy surrounding Google engineer James Damore precipitated the venture's success.[6]

Lehmann has contributed to publications including The Guardian, Harvard's Kennedy School Review, Tercera Cultura, Scientific American, Rebel Australia, Tablet, and ABC News.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Bari Weiss regards Lehmann as one of the leaders of the so-called "intellectual dark web".[2][14][15][16][17][18] Lehmann is seen as part of the intellectual dark web (IDW) due to publishing Quillette which Politico has referred to as "the unofficial digest of the IDW" which "prides itself on publishing 'dangerous' ideas other outlets won't touch," and critiquing "what they see as left-wing orthodoxy."[19] Published pieces often address themes such as "The suppression of free speech on campus...the reality of sex difference and the revisiting of post-colonial relations."[19]

The Sydney Morning Herald named Lehmann in their "Ten Aussies who shook the world in tech and media in 2018" citing that her online magazine, Quillette, has "attracted as many as 2 million followers a month, [and] is starting to gain significant traction in tech and libertarian circles in the US".[20]

References
  1. @clairlemon (18 July 2018). "Celebrating my 33rd birthday with the lovely @rivatez" (Tweet). Retrieved 23 March 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. Lester, Amelia. "The Voice of the 'Intellectual Dark Web': Claire Lehmann's online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing 'dangerous' ideas other outlets won't touch. How far is it willing to go?". Politico Magazine (November/December 2018). ISSN 2381-1595.
  3. Lehmann, Claire. "BIO". Claire Lehmann. Retrieved 1 October 2018. Before starting Quillette, I was a grad-student in psychology, but dropped out after having a baby. I graduated from The University of Adelaide with First Class Honours in 2010.
  4. Lehmann, Claire (26 November 2018). "Tweet". If you're at a loose end in Sydney tomorrow night, come to my father-in-law's book launch. Geoffrey Lehmann was a poet during the era of the Sydney Push, (Sydney Push ...) & his memoir has many interesting tales.
  5. Jennifer Duke, "'Huge gap in the market': the local publisher winning where others won't tread","The Sydney Morning Herald", May 1, 2019
  6. Macken, Deirdre (19 July 2018). "Centre stage in the culture war". The Australian. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  7. "Claire Lehmann". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2018. Claire Lehmann is a Sydney-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Harvard Kennedy School Review, and has been translated into Spanish for Tercera Cultura.
  8. Lehmann, Claire (10 February 2014). "Digital Mobs & Outrage Generation". Kennedy School Review. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  9. "Autor: Claire Lehmann". Tercera Cultura (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  10. "Stories by Claire Lehmann". Scientific American. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  11. "Claire Lehmann, Author at Commentary". Commentary. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  12. "Claire Lehmann, Author at Tablet Magazine". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  13. "Claire Lehmann". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2018. Claire Lehmann is a freelance writer and editor of Quillette Magazine.
  14. Weiss, Bari (8 May 2018). "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web; An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation. Should we be listening?". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  15. Edroso, Roy (14 May 2018). "Conservatives Cheer the Latest Right-Wing Supergroup, the Intellectual Dark Web". The Village Voice. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  16. Daum, Meghan (16 March 2018). "A new movement to speak truth to identity politics is our best hope against regressive thinking". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018. The nest of free thinkers includes, to name just a few, Claire Lehmann, founder and editor of the online magazine Quillette, the bioethicist and author Alice Dreger, and Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.
  17. Beres, Derek (5 March 2018). "These are the women behind the Intellectual Dark Web". Big Think. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  18. Daum, Meghan (22 March 2018). "Speaking truth to identify politics". Providence Journal. Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  19. Amelia Lester (11 November 2018). "The Voice of the 'Intellectual Dark Web'". Politco Magazine.
  20. McDuling, John (25 December 2018). "Ten Aussies who shook the world in tech and media in 2018". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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