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25. Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge

Ideas Having Sex

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The Difference Between Cancellation and Criticism

Kaufman: What if anything is the difference between cancel culture, which fuels some of these silent spirals and just widespread criticism of bad ideas? He says it's almost always extremely easy to tell whether what we're seeing is criticism of an idea versus the attempt to destroy an individual. Kaufman: You don't want to create a situation where Chris Kaufman is afraid to stay stopped because he might be wrong.

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