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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott: The Canceling of the American Mind
Description: Cancel culture—the term and the practice—has left its mark on American culture, business, academia and society at all levels over the past few years. Was it inevitable? Is it permanent? Or is it, as authors Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott argue, a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status and dominance? They say it is just a symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to "win" arguments without actually winning arguments.Drawing on data and research on the phenomenon of cancel culture and how it works, along with many...