Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans
As the legendary comedian chalks up prestigious awards and plays to packed houses, his progressive critics look increasingly ridiculous.
Allan Stratton
· 9 min read
Cancel Culture
A collection of 78 posts
Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders
The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.
Stephen Warren
· 17 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
· 10 min read
History Lessons from the Toronto Mob Targeting a 19th-Century Gay Icon
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
Cancel Culture Has a Lot to Answer For
Cancel culture prescribes affirmative action as the means to install diversity in all activities that it values.
Peter H. Schuck
· 6 min read
The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture
It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions.
Christophe Van Eecke
· 20 min read
Jessie Tu and the Fashionably Regressive Approach to Reading
The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful.
Neil Tully
· 6 min read
The War on Porn: Cancel Culture on Steroids
OnlyFans was given a huge boost by the pandemic. Many sex workers, faced with the sudden loss of their regular incomes, and stuck at home with time on their hands, flocked to the platform and built new streams of income.
Jerry Barnett
· 12 min read
Twilight of the Satyrs
I. On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th, and climbed to the top of the bestseller lists. But then allegations emerged that while
Charlotte Allen
· 28 min read
Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable
“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.
Jessica Pigeau
· 35 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review
“Cancel culture” remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy.
Adam Wakeling
· 7 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence
It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.
Pedro Domingos
· 12 min read
Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture
In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”
Noah Carl
· 9 min read
The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read