The Cancel Culture Panic: Understanding How an American Obsession Went Global (with Adrian Daub)

You can't say anything these days! Especially not on a college campus, and especially not if you're a white man. For evidence, please enjoy this loose assemblage of sixth-hand anecdotes with no detail or reporting to back it up. This is the discursive form that Caitlin and Trent brought Stanford professor Adrian Daub on to discuss, described in his 2024 book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global.ResourcesThe Cancel Culture Panic: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cancel-culture-panic-how-an-american-obsession-went-global-adrian-daub/7c3bcd17c60f4e52?ean=9781503640849&next=tAcademic paper on Caitlin's cancellation story: https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/download/5257/4885/10012 In Bed With The Right podcast https://gender.stanford.edu/podcastsAssorted cancel culture discourse 2020-2022https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/steven-pinker-will-be-just-fine/614323/https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/09/steven-pinker-wont-be-cancelled-but-you-could-be/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/campus-speech-cancel-culture.htmlhttps://www.motherjones.com/recharge/2020/07/factually-flawed-anti-pinker-letter/Caitlin's answer to the MJ thing https://c-moriah-green.medium.com/bad-news-about-that-pro-pinker-mother-jones-piece-it-doesnt-make-any-fucking-sense-5efb27a72495Cancel Culture is Overhttps://www.persuasion.community/p/why-woke-failedhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-democrats-voters-maine.htmlWe're fixing it with the help of our wealthy donorshttps://www.chronicle.com/article/meet-the-donors-funding-the-civil-dialogue-boom-at-colleges https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/15/harvard-donors-viewpoint-diversity/https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/university-intellectual-freedom-center-creates-100000609.htmlhttps://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/documents/steven-pinker-im-pinned-between-cancel-culture-and-trump-002.pdfThank you Mr. Trump BUThttps://ash.harvard.edu/articles/why-im-excited-about-the-white-houses-proposal-for-a-higher-ed-compact/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opinion/democrats-trump-midterms-future.html Charlie Kirk Actshttps://wpln.org/post/tennessees-charlie-kirk-act-bans-student-walkouts-protects-conservative-speakers/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2026/04/21/tenn-passes-charlie-kirk-act-defending-campus-speakers