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By “cancel culture,” we mean the measurable uptick, beginning around 2014, of campaigns to get people fired, expelled, deplatformed, or otherwise punished for speech that would be protected by ...
This post is addressed to the folks on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff. During the recent 2023 Essence Festival of Culture, the Vice President was asked how she defined “culture ...
Cancel culture, the online trend of calling out people, celebrities, brands and organizations – rightly or wrongly – for perceived social indiscretions or offensive behaviors, has become a ...
But the culture wars as we know it begins in the 1960s, which were rife with movements for liberation and change, according to historians. Marginalized groups in the Civil Rights, Black power ...
More than 30 years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter coined the term "culture wars." Since then, those wars have poisoned American politics. How could we end America's culture wars?
A Times critic argues that ours is the least innovative century for the arts in 500 years. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.