For many progressives, it was a big moment. In 2019, Congress was holding its first hearing on whether the United States should pay reparations for slavery. To support the idea, Democrats had invited the influential author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who had revived the reparations issue in an article in The Atlantic, and the actor and activist […]
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What Harvard Should Learn From Claudine Gay’s Resignation
I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like to record what I wrote: “Cancel culture is always ugly and usually a mistake. If Gay is to go, let it […]
Read MoreWhat Harvard Should Learn From Claudine Gay’s Resignation
I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like to record what I wrote: “Cancel culture is always ugly and usually a mistake. If Gay is to go, let it […]
Read MoreNicolas Cage Can’t Escape Himself in Dream Scenario
It’s telling that Borgli’s producer for Dream Scenario is the enterprising horror specialist Ari Aster. His 2023 Beau Is Afraid cultivates a similar patch of thematic terrain, with Joaquin Phoenix starring as a middle-aged wreck navigating the shoals of his own paranoia; done up in shlubby, shuffling sad-sack drag, Phoenix even resembles Cage. The prevailing […]
Read MoreThe Uncancellable Dolly Parton Thinks Cancel Culture Is ‘Terrible’ And Explained Her Decision To Collaborate With Kid Rock
By all accounts, Dolly Parton seems like perhaps the purest soul roaming Earth. The country icon and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2022 inductee still uses a fax machine to communicate (as of May 2022) with her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus. Her enduring commitment to philanthropy earned her the Bezos Courage And Civility Award and […]
Read MoreYascha Mounk’s Woke Straw Man
How, when, and even whether these ideas escaped their academic homes is the real quandary. Most of Mounk’s thinkers penned their famous essays and monographs decades ago. Foucault published Discipline and Punish in 1975, and Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989. Why did their ideas only make it into the mainstream—according to Mounk—many years […]
Read MoreGuess Which Group Ron DeSantis Just Banned from Florida Campuses
Offering possible objections based on what he described as “constitutional infirmity,” Johnson claimed there were grounds to reject the election results from states that permitted pandemic-induced state modifications to mail-in ballots and early voting systems that bypassed the approval of state legislatures. Ultimately, it was Johnson’s work that allowed Republicans to seize on the events […]
Read MoreCancel Culture? Jewish Editor Fired for Sharing Onion Article on Gaza
Ogg has also used her position to attack political opponents with onerous court cases, effectively punishing them for challenging her. In mid-September, a county court-at-law judge told the Houston Chronicle that he warned colleagues not to cross her: “If you piss her off, you’re going to a grand jury and you may or may not […]
Read MoreWith War in Israel, the Cancel Culture Debate Comes Full Circle
Nathan Thrall’s searing new book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” struck me as important even before the obscene massacres and mass kidnappings committed by Hamas this month lit the Middle East on fire. Today, with people still struggling to understand the contours of this deeply complicated conflict, the book seems essential. An […]
Read MoreHello, Left. Now Do You Believe There’s Cancel Culture?
Jonathan Newman, CEO of SweetgreenDavid Duel, CEO of EasyHealthAle Resnik, CEO of BelongJake Wurzak, CEO of DoveHill Capital ManagementMichael Broukhim, CEO of FabFitFunStephen Ready, CEO of InspiredHu Montague, founder of DiligentMartin Varsavsky, tech entrepreneurMichael McQuaid, head of decentralize finance at BloqArt Levy, head of strategy at Brex That’s actually 11, including Ackman, but never mind. […]
Read MoreThe Value of an Education That Never Ends
For more than 15 years I have presided over my university’s Arrival Day, the time when families drop off their sons and daughters about to start their college career. Every year some parents will take me aside to say they wish they were starting college, and that they’d get a lot more out of the […]
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