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Free Speech: What IS Cancel Culture?

Free Speech: What IS Cancel Culture?

FromNow & Then


Free Speech: What IS Cancel Culture?

FromNow & Then

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Why are Americans so preoccupied with so-called “cancel culture”? What are the lines between accountability and cancellation? And what drives citizens to stand against objectionable statements?

On this final episode in a three-part series on free speech, Heather and Joanne discuss the fall from grace of Loyalist politician Thomas Hutchinson during the Revolutionary period, the suppression of the German language during World War I, and the 2003 controversy over The Chicks’ public condemnation of the Iraq War. 

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Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.