Posted by “Cancelling Cancel Culture” is a gathering of significant voices from countries on both sides of the Atlantic, including Laurence Fox, Professor Frank Furedi and Douglas Murray from the U.K., Dr James Lindsay, Rod Dreher, Charles Cooke and Dave Rubin from the U.S., Eric Tegnér and Eric Zemmour from France, Professor Ryszard Legutko from Poland, Professor Josette Baer from Switzerland and pop star Ákos of Hungary. All over the Western world, speakers who hold unpopular views that is, views unpopular with the Left are being told that they cannot speak. Sometimes they are dismissed by the companies for which they work. Sometimes their articles are accepted by newspapers but then returned because some journalists on the paper object. Sometimes they are physically attacked and injured. There’s been a reluctance to accept that these things are happening, but they are. That’s why we’ve brought together this group of distinguished academics, journalists, and artists from several countries to discuss this disturbing new trend.
This is the first of a multi-part series entitled “Cancelling Cancel Culture”, a gathering of significant voices from countries on both sides of the Atlantic, including Laurence Fox Professor Frank Furedi and Douglas Murray from the U.K., Dr. James Lindsay, Rod Dreher, Charles Cooke and Dave Rubin from the U.S., Eric Tegner and Eric Zemmour from France, Professor Ryszard Legutko from Poland, Professor Josette Baer from Switzerland and pop star Akos of Hungary.
Laurence Fox, former actor until the Cancel Culture crowd drove him from his profession has now taken the challenge head on. First by speaking out, next by founding Reclaim, a new political party in the United Kingdom, drawing support from both the Left and the Right, and then by a mayoral run in the City of London where he made a very respectable showing. In a recent Telegraph article, he was described as “saying aloud what mainstream politicians are too frightened to say, challenging the stifling conformity of identity politics. An actor turned evangelist preaching an alternative gospel to the false religion of woke”. Laurence discusses his own battle with Cancel Culture, with the actor’s union Equity, and his concern over the attacks on free speech from the “Cathedral of Woke” and how to respond effectively to this challenge.
This is the second of a multi-part series entitled “Cancelling Cancel Culture”, a gathering of significant voices from countries on both sides of the Atlantic, including Laurence Fox Professor Frank Füredi and Douglas Murray from the U.K., Dr. James Lindsay, Rod Dreher, Charles Cooke and Dave Rubin from the U.S., Eric Tegner and Eric Zemmour from France, Professor Ryszard Legutko from Poland, Professor Josette Baer from Switzerland and pop star Ákos of Hungary. This episode features two academics, Professor Ryszard Legutko of Poland and Dr. Josette Baer of Switzerland who examine the connections between present day Cancel Culture ideology and the two great totalitarian movements of the 20th century, fascism and communism.
“The first thing that strike any open-minded observer in all cases is the total absence of any self-restraining impulses”, so says Prof Legutko when comparing modern-day ‘Cancel Culture’ to past cancel culture events which were a part of the French Revolution and Communist Russia/USSR. In his lecture, Legutko addresses the underpinnings of Cancel Culture. This is the third of a multi-part series entitled “Cancelling Cancel Culture”, a gathering of significant voices from countries on both sides of the Atlantic, including Laurence Fox Professor Frank Furedi and Douglas Murray from the U.K., Dr. James Lindsay, Rod Dreher, Charles Cooke and Dave Rubin from the U.S., Eric Tegner and Eric Zemmour from France, Professor Ryszard Legutko from Poland, Professor Josette Baer from Switzerland and pop star Akos of Hungary.
This is the fourth of a multi-part series entitled “Cancelling Cancel Culture”, featuring Ákos Kovács, a Hungarian artist who has been producing chart-topping hits and albums for 30 years. What role does the artist play in resisting Cancel Culture? He is joined in the conversation by Rod Dreher, U. S. author of “Live Not by Lies”, British-American writer Charles C. W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, and Erik Tegnér of France, founder of French media company “Livre Noir”.
This is the fifth of a multi-part series entitled “Cancelling Cancel Culture”, featuring New Discourses founder, U. S. Author, mathematician, and political commentator Dr James Lindsay. He is joined in the conversation by British-American writer Charles C. W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, author and essayist Rod Dreher and French reporter Erik Tégner.
In Part Six, we feature Douglas Murray, bestselling author, and journalist based in Britain. His books include The Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam’ (2017) and ‘The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity’. He has been Associate Editor at The Spectator magazine since 2012 and has written regularly there, as well as for other publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Mail on Sunday and National Review. A regular guest on the BBC and other news channels, he has also spoken at numerous universities, parliaments, the O2 Arena and the White House. He is joined in the conversation by British-American writer Charles C. W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, author and essayist Rod Dreher and French reporter Erik Tegnér.