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Notes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture March 03, 2025

This week, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo published chat logs from an internal employee messaging service at the National Security Agency. “These logs,” he wrote, “dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of se...

Has Cancel Culture Been Canceled? February 14, 2025

Marko Elez, a software engineer working in Elon Musk’s DOGE, was recently “canceled” due to some offensive remarks . . . and then uncanceled the next day. Elez had posted some very obnoxious things, such as “Normalize Indian hate,” and “Just for the ...

Is This What Cancel Culture Achieved? February 12, 2025

Over the weekend, the artist and entrepreneur Kanye West, now known as Ye, let loose a blitzkrieg of appalling screeds to his 33 million followers on X. “IM A NAZI,” he proclaimed. He reiterated his position that “SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE,” contended tha...