Harvard Law Professor-Emeritus Alan Dershowitz tells 'Life, Liberty & Levin' the 92nd Street Y, Harvard are giving him the cold shoulder.

If you've ever felt gaslit by a friend, aunt, uncle, or pundit who dismisses cancel culture as a non-issue or a hoax, I’ve got something to share with you. "The Canceling of the American Mind," my new book with Gen-Z journalist Rikki Schlott and featuring a foreword by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, has an important message for those people.

"Canceling" conclusively shows that cancel culture not only exists but thrives on college campuses at an unprecedented scale, that it is part of an unhealthy approach to "winning arguments without winning arguments," and that it wreaks havoc on institutions and erodes public trust in expertise.

In my 22 years defending freedom of speech both on and off campus, I’ve found that those who attempt to downplay or deny the existence of cancel culture typically lack knowledge about the history of free speech and academic freedom. They also often start with the presumption that cancel culture can't be true and then work backward.

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Others simply believe that the coverage cancel culture gets in conservative media means it must be a "right wing hoax." Indeed, George Washington law professor Mary Anne Franks recently published an article claiming that not only is cancel culture a right wing hoax, but people who argue that it’s real are "Neo-Confederates" and, of course, "fascist."

"The Canceling of the American Mind," by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott.

Rikki and I define "cancel culture" as the measurable uptick, beginning around 2014, of campaigns to get people fired, expelled, deplatformed or otherwise punished for speech that is — or would be — protected by the First Amendment. And this uptick is no minor blip.

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