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Little morality plays

Disingenuous angst over cancel culture
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April 2025, no. 474

The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American obsession went global by Adrian Duab

Stanford University Press, US $18 pb, 224 pp

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Little morality plays

Disingenuous angst over cancel culture
by
April 2025, no. 474

Each year the Macquarie Dictionary convenes a panel to select a word of the year. In 2019, the panel chose ‘cancel culture’, which it defined as ‘the attitudes within a community which call for or bring about the withdrawal of support from a public figure’. Since then, cancel culture has been a preoccupation of Australian journalists and politicians, with cancellation serving as shorthand for punishment for expressing dissenting views, and sometimes just for being out of favour with a powerful and homogeneous cohort of unnamed leftists.

The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American obsession went global

The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American obsession went global

by Adrian Duab

Stanford University Press, US $18 pb, 224 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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