Auburn University Is Considering Unhiring a Professor for Tweeting a Swear Word
The right also has an affinity for cancel culture.
The right also has an affinity for cancel culture.
Is freedom of speech best upheld by law or by culture?
Both outlawry and cancel culture grow out of the same human impulse toward ostracism, the desire to exclude offenders from “respectable” society.
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
The Fifth Column podcaster is done with cancel culture, identity politics, and political orthodoxy.
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
In woke corporate America, there's no statute of limitations on wrongthink.
When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out.
Irate employees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art said the removal of Gary Garrels was "non-negotiable."
But the woke war against liberalism is far from over.
I was one of the 153 signers and am a veteran of the Twitter wars. But even I was taken aback by the swift, virulent response.
But buried beneath the bilious response to the Harper's joint statement is a worthwhile argument about freedom of association.
Cancel culture is real, but Hamilton is safe.
The Reason Roundtable podcast has some helpful suggestions for the summer of 2020.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Scott Alexander has deleted his popular blog to deter a reporter from exposing his real name.
Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
Cancel Culture is on the rise, it needs to stop if we are to preserve a free society.
Don't lock down expression along with so much else of American society.
There was absolutely no reason to run this.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
Plus: "Twitter Robespierres," Trump's campaign does a weird flex on a bad poll, and more....
Staffers framed their opposition to Sen. Tom Cotton's op-ed as a matter of workplace safety.
"Humankind" instead of "mankind," "salesperson" instead of "salesman," and so on
The Mat-Su School Board evidently doesn't understand the purpose of a school.
Tucker Carlson: "There is no greater moral crime than betraying your country in a time of crisis, and that appears to be what happened."
"I would rather be remembered for writing something that was...offensive, than to be forgotten for writing something bloodless."
Did the outrage that caused it to get shelved also return? (Spoiler: It has not)
The New Hampshire polls have closed, and the businessman and math advocate is no longer a candidate for president.
"Say what you will about ISIS but at least they're not Islamophobic." Journalist Andrew Doyle has created the ultimate parody account.
The tour may be canceled, but the book is benefiting from the controversy.
Journalists and pundits who frantically doubled down on their initial bad takes deserve more criticism.
Isabel Fall is canceled. It's the science fiction world's loss.
The New York Public Library calls off an event featuring feminists who have clashed with the trans rights movement.
"If 2018 was the year that the concept of 'cancel culture' went mainstream, then 2019 may be the year that cancel culture cancels itself."
"I have no faith left in call-out vigilante justice."
It's OK to disagree with an author's politics and still like her work.
This latest social media freakout has prompted a formal military investigation.
"I think if we decide we’re just going to immediately hair-trigger cancel anything that might make anyone uncomfortable, we’re missing a chance to teach.”
Today's censors are using tech policy and social-media outrage to attack your right to think and say what you believe.
Plus: Uber and Los Angeles transit regulators go to war over user data, young adult novelists cancel critic, and ex-ambassador testifies in impeachment hearings.
Campus conservatism must take the threat of the far right seriously.
A Trick of Light is the result of an unorthodox collaboration between the accomplished young adult novelist and the late Spider-Man creator.
The company was criticized for serving ICE employees, then criticized for apologizing.