Some of the operas that you conducted perhaps had a political message or had a kind of staging but perhaps shocked people. Yasha: I would piss audiences off because they thought they go to the opera for sort of nice Mozart and they heard stuff that was discordant and then they were upset. You're sort of pretending to be anti-conventional when you actually deeply conventional so you know I'm not uncritical of that but it's such a different spirit to what it feels like today.
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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