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cancel culture
January 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Fire People for Dumb Tweets
The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson.
January 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
How the GOP Fell in Love With Cancel Culture
A concept popularized by online media has fully migrated to the Republican fever swamps.
November 23, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Dangerous Inversions of the Debate Around Trans “Censorship”
The author of a book on the supposed “transgender craze seducing our daughters” claims she is being silenced. It is a very loud silence.
September 17, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why Does
The Washington Post
Publish This Never-Trump Drivel?
A recent op-ed by AEI’s Danielle Pletka is the latest evidence of the immense bad faith of conservatives.
July 29, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Monopoly Is Tyranny
Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.
July 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Self-Cancellation of Bari Weiss
Like much of her writing, the former New York Times editor’s resignation letter is long on accusation and thin on evidence.
November 25, 2019
Magazine
Ryu Spaeth
The Strange Liberal Backlash to Woke Culture
Why Meghan Daum, Bret Easton Ellis, and Wesley Yang reject social justice movements on the left
November 6, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Fixating on “Cancel Culture” in an Age of Transphobia
Articles about "canceled" or "provocative" writers rarely focus on the people they've harmed.
September 23, 2019
Osita Nwanevu
The “Cancel Culture” Con
Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, and other alleged victims would rather scold their critics than come up with fresh material.
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