Cancel Culture
Arthur Aidala: The Nice-Guy Lawyer for America’s Tabloid Villains
Mr. Aidala’s mother, Mary Ann Piazza Aidala, was a schoolteacher. His father, Louis Aidala, is a lawyer who worked for Frank Hogan, the Manhattan district attorney. Louis Aidala became a defense lawyer, representing clients including Eyad Ismoil, who was convicted of abetting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Jennifer Lopez when she […]
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Solveig Gold Is Proud to Be the Wife of a ‘Canceled’ Princeton Professor
And when Dr. Katz lost his job, Ms. Gold promptly published an essay about their relationship in Common Sense, the newsletter run by Bari Weiss, a former writer and editor for the opinion department of The New York Times. (“My alma mater is not the school I once loved,” went part of the headline. “But […]
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Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Verdict: The Actual Malice of the Trial
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial was, from gavel to gavel, a singularly baffling, unedifying and sad spectacle. Now that it has ended with the jury finding in favor of Depp on all questions and in favor of Heard on only one, it’s clear that the confusion was the point. Why did Depp, who had […]
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These 8 Conservative Men Are Making No Apologies
Joe: Amen. Kristen Soltis Anderson: Krupal, how about you? Krupal (Asian, 22, medical assistant, Maryland): I would say you’re not allowed to be free anymore. Due to the internet and social media, a bunch of trolls have gotten so much power. They’re constantly out there to play gotcha. So you got to be cautious. Patrick […]
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America Has a Free Speech Problem
At the same time, all Americans should be deeply concerned about an avalanche of legislation passed by Republican-controlled legislatures around the country that gags discussion of certain topics and clearly violates the spirit of the First Amendment, if not the letter of the law. It goes far beyond conservative states yanking books about race and […]
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I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.
Ms. Sacks felt overwhelmed. “Everyone adding on to each other kind of energized the room, like everyone wanted to be part of the group with the correct opinion,” she said. The experience, she said, “made me not want to go to class again.” While Ms. Sacks did continue to attend the class, she participated less […]
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