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Cancel Culture

  1. the discourse
    Cancel Culture Grows UpHave we figured out how to separate the repugnant from the merely unlucky?
    By Ryu Spaeth
  2. games
    Lance Armstrong Is Setting New World Records for GallThe disgraced cyclist is trying, absurdly, to position himself as a cancel-culture victim.
    By Will Leitch
  3. cancel culture
    How Did Southwest Airlines Screw Up This Bad?The storm is over, but the canceled flights keep coming.
    By Matt Stieb
  4. on with kara swisher
    Eric Idle Says Audiences Get to Decide What’s Not FunnyIn the latest episode of On With Kara Swisher, Kara talks censorship and cancel culture with the Monty Python legend.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  5. kids these days
    The Whiny Grade-Grubbing NYU Students Have a PointIt is too hard to become a doctor in the United States.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. politics
    Free-Speech Lover Putin Laments Cancellation of J.K. RowlingOn Friday, the Russian president sounded more like an aggrieved Substack writer than a fearsome autocrat.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. encounter
    Hollywood’s Cancel-Culture ConsultantLacey Leone McLaughlin is hand-holding anxious execs afraid of their young assistants.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  8. media
    Parler CEO Says the MAGA Answer to Twitter Is ‘Grace’The pitch for conservative social media is anti–cancel culture, but its biggest problem may simply be TikTok.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  9. politics
    The Right Has Mastered Cancel CultureGlenn Youngkin’s anti-CRT hotline exemplifies an illiberal trend.
    By Sarah Jones
  10. cancel culture
    She Tweeted That Alan Dershowitz Might Be Acting Crazy. So Yale Fired Her.The strange free-speech case of Bandy Lee.
    By Joshua Kendall
  11. the intelligencer profile
    What Happened to Matt Taibbi?The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics. He says he hasn’t changed.
    By Ross Barkan
  12. culture wars
    You Don’t Have to Be Woke to Dislike Anti-Woke DemocratsJames Carville’s surface-level analysis of Louisiana politics is the 2021 version of “hippie punching.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. conservatism
    GOP Stands Up to ‘Cancel Culture’ by Criminalizing DissentRepublicans believe that corporations opposing conservative causes undermines civil liberties, but governments criminalizing protest does not.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. cancel culture
    Ted Cruz Wants to Cancel John BoehnerThe great champion of liberty against “cancel culture” is raising money from people who want to watch him burn Boehner’s book.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. republican party
    Conservative George W. Bush Is Now Too Liberal for His PartyGeorge W. and Jeb Bush once defined not just Republicanism, but movement conservatism. Both have changed decisively after Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. republican party
    Is ‘Anti-Wokeness’ the New Ideology of the Republican Party?The sudden GOP obsession with “cancellation” suggests old-school conservatism may be displaced by cultural extremism that goes beyond Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. conservatism
    What Can Republicans Do to Make ‘Conservative Populism’ More Popular?From identifying a few ways to re-redistribute resources to their constituencies to restricting the franchise, Republicans are battling the future.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. smitings
    You Know Who Loves to Cancel People? God.A Fox News host worries that the left will come for Bible characters.
    By Sarah Jones
  19. impeachment trial
    What Trump’s Lawyers Mean by ‘Constitutional Cancel Culture’Unbelievably, the supreme bully Trump is being depicted as a victim of Congress in a trial over his incitement of an attack on Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. just asking questions
    David Shor’s Unified Theory of American PoliticsA socialist data scientist (and supposed cancel-culture victim) details all he learned from eight years at the apex of Democratic consulting.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. the discourse
    ‘Defending a Free Society’ Requires Radically Changing This OneThe myopia and hypocrisy of “philosophical liberals” undermine their critiques of “cancel culture.”
    By Eric Levitz
  22. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: Democratic Candidates Are in a Bubble on ImmigrationThe debates proved that they are fundamentally out of touch with the difficult realities of the issue.
    By Andrew Sullivan