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Teaching Our Students to ‘Cancel’

Teaching Our Students to ‘Cancel’
The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 8, 2020. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
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You’ll hear that “cancel culture” isn’t real. You’ll hear that the phrase is just a way for powerful people to complain when they are criticized. You’ll hear that it’s just a way of “calling out” people who have done stupid or evil things.

Joseph Bottum
Joseph Bottum
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Joseph Bottum, Ph.D., is director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University. His most recent book is “The Decline of the Novel.”
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