Meghan Daum Is Done with 'Cancel Culture.' But Is America?
The author of the provocative intellectual memoir The Problem with Everything takes on fourth-wave feminism and celebrates Gen X's "toughness."
The author of the provocative intellectual memoir The Problem with Everything takes on fourth-wave feminism and celebrates Gen X's "toughness."
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
Freedom of expression is under attack from politicians, activists, and, saddest of all, journalists who benefit most from it.
The comedian received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in D.C. this weekend. His acceptance speech airs on PBS in January.
Such actions remind kids that government authority is stupid, arbitrary, and worth fighting at every opportunity.
"When I say, 'Be kind to one another,' I don't mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. Doesn't matter."
"Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture."
Carson King is the latest victim of a cancel culture that's out of control.
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Comedy, meet cancel culture
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Trick of Light collaborator talks about working with a legend, the failings of online community, and the rise of cancel culture in the literary world.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.
Leif Olson was clearly making fun of the alt-right.
The New York Times columnist emailed a professor to complain about a mean tweet—and cc'ed the provost.
The comedian's new Netflix special deftly skewers woke scolds.
The comedian and activist was fired from a film after a 2007 blackface photo emerged.
After outraged responses from Fox and Trump, Universal yanks The Hunt from its schedule.
A handful of dumb tweets do not a story make.
"The cost of not doing this is the harm done to other Googlers every time they encounter these terms," says the company's diversity and inclusion team.
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The celebrated law professor lost his position as faculty dean after students demanded his firing.
The artist wanted students to learn about Washington's flaws. How traumatizing.
Campus free speech battles. Intersectionality-fueled infighting. Cancel culture. Pre-order now!
A social media mob successfully persuades Harvard to rescind the admission of a conservative Parkland survivor.
Reason's Robby Soave on his new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump
"The presence of YAF would further marginalize minority students on campus."
The video platform temporarily demonetized a conservative comedian's channel, satisfying no one.
The move violates the First Amendment, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
"I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I've become in the years since."
"When you bow to these woke scolds, they accept it as weakness."
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Kosoko Jackson, a gay black author writing about a gay black protagonist, gets taken down by the YA Twitterati.
Modern leftist activism is mired in infighting between the most marginalized and their allies. Blame intersectionality.
Students yelled expletives at Lawrence Rosen during class.
"It is an overtly racist play and will be harmful to the student population if staged."
Groundbreaking Fox program took the piss out of politics and gave space to libertarian deplorables
Lack of ideological diversity left campuses unprepared to cope with reality.
Not a justification for campus censorship
'Of course we would not want to cause offence in any way.'
Administrators said the decision puts them "on the right side of history."
Does Western Washington University's head even know the difference?