Tag: Cancel culture
Sunday essay: Joanna Bourke, the NSW arts minister, and the unruly contradictions of cancel culture
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An earworm has gnawed its way into my brain, looping the same melody...
Sunday essay: is this the end of translation?
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In 399 CE, Faxian — a monk in China’s Jin Dynasty — went on a pilgrimage to the Indian subcontinent to collect...
Cat in a spat: scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture
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Let’s start by putting aside the bugbear that it is even possible to “cancel” children’s author Dr Seuss.
As Philip...
To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism
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Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of...
Conspiracy theories on the right, cancel culture on the left: how political legitimacy came under threat in 2020
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2020 has been a challenging year. For some challenges, such as the coronavirus, a light is appearing at the end of...
Sunday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities
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In 2017, when a biology professor in a state college in Washington protested against a proposed day-long ban on the presence of white...