FIRE built its reputation policing cancel culture. Now the free-speech group is confronting the Trump administration.
It’s no secret that many celebrities are terrified of being canceled. From Blake Lively to Kendall Jenner, numerous public figures have faced dents to their reputations, floods of hate comments, mass ...
In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American higher education from the scourge of cancel culture. They called it the University of ...
Amanda Knox is once again pushing back on Matt Damon's recent remarks, this time over his comparison of public “cancel culture” backlash to serving time in prison. The exchange began after Damon and ...
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck continued their press tour for Netflix’s “The Rip” with an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” where the eponymous podcast host and Damon reflected on cancel culture in ...
When I first started writing, nearly 15 years ago, things were different. First off, newspapers were still around, doing their thing. My wife still clipped newspaper coupons. Peanuts, Dilbert, ...
This essay is adapted from Kevin R. Kosar’s preface to The Unheavenly City Revisited, which traces problems facing America’s cities, the biases that affect policymakers’ perceptions of urban areas, ...
The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing their control over institutions and the public by undermining First ...
After texts between Lawrence Summers and Jeffrey Epstein surfaced, the cancel-culture machine set the sad Ivy League veteran on the path to ruin. But Larry Summers consented to his own cancellation 20 ...
Graphic of four people. some drawbacks of cancel culture include its tendency for hypervigilance and tunnel visioning. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you spend time on social media, you’re ...
R.L. Maizes’s debut novel, ”Other People’s Pets,” won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection ”We Love Anderson Cooper.” She lives in Niwot, ...