Kristoffer Borgli’s surreal comedy probes the benefits and horrors of instant fame.

His polemic “The Identity Trap” presents very little evidence of identity politics run amok.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is launching an attack on students who care about Palestine.

Michael Eisen says his dismissal was due to his sharing the satirical article.

There’s plenty to deplore when some on the left coddle Hamas. But harassing people you disagree with is no substitute for debate.

M&Ms is putting the spokescandies on “indefinite pause,” after right-wing backlash to the women mascots’ shoes, weight, sexuality, and mere existence.

Some of the “classical liberals” who founded an ersatz college for “free speech” sure seem more at home in Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.

Mitch McConnell says the GOP won’t have a legislative agenda for the 2022 midterms, and it’s no wonder: What few ideas the party has are deeply unpopular.

The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.

How Medina Spirit’s positive drug test before the Preakness drew the ire of Donald Trump and Fox News

The conservative gadfly’s new film studio is a bid to monetize the battle against cancel culture.

Does the First Amendment confer a right never to face public criticism? No, but the high court may be forced to settle the matter anew.

As long as conservatives are obsessed with Dr. Seuss and “woke capital,” they’ll be too distracted to wage genuinely harmful culture wars.

Condé Nast set Alexi McCammond and the magazine’s staff up to fail. And yet it’s seemingly evaded any responsibility for its decisions.

How the 1990s created a group of thinkers obsessed with cancel culture

His meteoric rise to mainstream celebrity could only have happened in 1990s America. Some people would like to go back.

Using isolated H.R. moves at the paper of record, such as the recent departure of Donald McNeil, as parables for an entire industry has its limits.

The Missouri senator probably won’t shut up about how he was “silenced” any time soon.