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Adrian Daub

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  • Scene from "Smokey and the Bandit" of Burt Reynolds talking on a CB radio.

    "A Long Way to Go and a Short Time to Get There"

    In the 1970s, trucker films like "Smokey and the Bandit" celebrated rebellious, working-class solidarity and freedom, with complex politics at play.
    by Adrian Daub via Dreams in the Which House on November 3, 2024
  • Abstract art piece showing various different people speaking.

    The Campus Controversy Complex

    Campus speech debates reveal a history of distorted narratives, balancing free speech, moral standards, and generational conflicts in U.S. universities.
    by Adrian Daub via The Pennsylvania Gazette on October 24, 2024
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    How 'The Campus' Captured Our Imaginations—And Our Politics

    At least since the 1960s, a warped vision of college life has shaped U.S. culture and politics.
    by Adrian Daub via Made By History on September 3, 2024
Book
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
Adrian Daub
2024

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Know Your Enemy
Podcast
Know Your Enemy

The Life & Crimes of Roy Cohn

This crossover episode with "In Bed with the Right" covers Cohn's early life, a Freudian take on his mother's influence, and his hypocrisy as a closeted gay man who, as Joseph McCarthy's collaborator, was one of the drivers of persecuting communists and homosexuals during the Second Red Scare.
May 2, 2025
Illustration of an octopus with a "no talking" symbol, with its tentacles around the globe.

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.
by Samuel P. Catlin via The New Republic
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on November 25, 2024
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