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Cancel Culture
cancel culture
Apr. 19, 2024
2024’s Canceled Shows, for Your Final Consideration CBS is done with both CSI: Vegas and So Help Me Todd .
the eavesdropper
Apr. 11, 2024
cancel culture
Dec. 30, 2023
By Jason P. Frank
jesse david talks
Dec. 6, 2023
By Rebecca Alter
In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be Wrong Her novel The Book of Ayn is about a newly canceled person in a toxic relationship with her ego.
By Emma Alpern
movie review
Nov. 10, 2023
Who Here Hasn’t Dreamed of Nicolas Cage? Dream Scenario starts off as a funny, thoughtful look at how we all live in public today.
By Bilge Ebiri
the discourse
Sept. 23, 2023
Cancel Culture Grows Up Have we figured out how to separate the repugnant from the merely unlucky?
By Ryu Spaeth
cancel culture
Aug. 1, 2023
By Justin Curto
Lance Armstrong Is Setting New World Records for Gall The disgraced cyclist is trying, absurdly, to position himself as a cancel-culture victim.
By Will Leitch
cancel culture
Dec. 28, 2022
How Did Southwest Airlines Screw Up This Bad? The storm is over, but the canceled flights keep coming.
By Matt Stieb
on with kara swisher
Nov. 21, 2022
Eric Idle Says Audiences Get to Decide What’s Not Funny In the latest episode of On With Kara Swisher , Kara talks censorship and cancel culture with the Monty Python legend.
By Intelligencer Staff
kids these days
Oct. 5, 2022
The Whiny Grade-Grubbing NYU Students Have a Point It is too hard to become a doctor in the United States.
By Eric Levitz
Canceled at 17 When kids make mistakes and classmates never forgive.
By Elizabeth Weil
grammys 2022
Apr. 3, 2022
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Uh, Why Is Putin Talking About J.K. Rowling? He said on Friday that Russia is a victim of “cancel culture.”
By Danielle Cohen
Free-Speech Lover Putin Laments Cancellation of J.K. Rowling On Friday, the Russian president sounded more like an aggrieved Substack writer than a fearsome autocrat.
By Benjamin Hart
Hollywood’s Cancel-Culture Consultant Lacey Leone McLaughlin is hand-holding anxious execs afraid of their young assistants.
By Shawn McCreesh
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
spring fashion
Feb. 15, 2022
Why Couldn’t Anybody Cancel Dolce & Gabbana? The very expensive work-arounds of a fashion pariah.
By Tahirah Hairston
The Right Has Mastered Cancel Culture Glenn Youngkin’s anti-CRT hotline exemplifies an illiberal trend.
By Sarah Jones
cancel culture
Dec. 30, 2021
By Joshua Kendall
the intelligencer profile
Oct. 29, 2021
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
was that so hard?
May 26, 2021
Finally, Some Decent Thoughts on Cancel Culture Seth Rogen has some advice: “If you’ve made a joke that’s aged terribly, accept it.”
By Mia Mercado
cancellations
May 13, 2021
Oh No, Ellen Is Talking About Cancel Culture Now “It felt like somebody really did not want this show to come back.”
By Justin Curto
culture wars
Apr. 27, 2021
You Don’t Have to Be Woke to Dislike Anti-Woke Democrats James Carville’s surface-level analysis of Louisiana politics is the 2021 version of “hippie punching.”
By Ed Kilgore
conservatism
Apr. 22, 2021
GOP Stands Up to ‘Cancel Culture’ by Criminalizing Dissent Republicans believe that corporations opposing conservative causes undermines civil liberties, but governments criminalizing protest does not.
By Eric Levitz
cancel culture
Apr. 16, 2021
Ted Cruz Wants to Cancel John Boehner The great champion of liberty against “cancel culture” is raising money from people who want to watch him burn Boehner’s book.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Mar. 20, 2021
Conservative George W. Bush Is Now Too Liberal for His Party George W. and Jeb Bush once defined not just Republicanism, but movement conservatism. Both have changed decisively after Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Mar. 19, 2021
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
conservatism
Mar. 12, 2021
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
You Know Who Loves to Cancel People? God. A Fox News host worries that the left will come for Bible characters.
By Sarah Jones
impeachment trial
Feb. 12, 2021
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
Mr. Bean, Are You Okay??? In a recent interview, Mr. Bean opened up about how “stressful and exhausting” it is to be Mr. Bean.
By Amanda Arnold
just asking questions
July 17, 2020
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics A socialist data scientist (and supposed cancel-culture victim) details all he learned from eight years at the apex of Democratic consulting.
By Eric Levitz
the discourse
July 9, 2020
‘Defending a Free Society’ Requires Radically Changing This One The myopia and hypocrisy of “philosophical liberals” undermine their critiques of “cancel culture.”
By Eric Levitz
Mark Halperin Has Some Truly Wild Thoughts About Cancel Culture “Murderers in our society who get out of prison are afforded an opportunity to go on with some aspect of their life.”
By Claire Lampen
interesting times
June 28, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Democratic Candidates Are in a Bubble on Immigration The debates proved that they are fundamentally out of touch with the difficult realities of the issue.
By Andrew Sullivan
Surviving R. Kelly and the Problem With Modern Fan CultureMany of the biggest success stories of the last year in music involved men with volatile histories.
By Craig Jenkins