I'm just struck when I look at the world today how the sort of general tenor of advice columns has changed and it feels to me like the change really tells us something about the culture more broadly. A lot of people would tell me the column always made me feel better about my own life that I was not writing this letter to Prudy. The idea of alternating between COVID questions and wokeness questions just seems so dreadful but I remember I got a few letters from college students saying I'm really upset because this classmate of mine has not accepted my friend request. And in fact out of a few of these questions I ended up writing a story can a woman in her 50s
There is a lot of bad advice going around these days. If something bad happened to you, define yourself by your trauma. And if somebody inadvertently did something offensive, react as though they had intended to harm you. Emily Yoffe, a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, has spent years giving thoughtful advice and chronicling the strange turn in our culture. One of the country's best writers and most fearless reporters, she knows better than just about anyone else how to skewer the growing self-righteousness in our intellectual discourse.
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Emily Yoffe sit down to discuss the hallmarks of cancelation, why intent matters, and how we can recover our capacity to converse freely.
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