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The New Abnormal

Cancel Culture and the Eroding of America’s Institutions

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.67.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Daub, professor at Stanford University and author of The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, joins The New Abnormal to discuss moral panic, its echo chambers, and its celebrity origins. “Canceling” began with celebrity disinvestment in online spaces and moved into politics, Daub explained. “But there's a wholesale kind of reorientation of this term once it leaves those online only spaces,” said Daub.

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I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.

0:42.0

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.

0:45.8

But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:50.8

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.

0:55.4

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond.

1:02.0

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.

1:09.8

Welcome back to another bonus episode of The New Abnormal and we thank you so much for being here.

1:13.6

Today we're joined by Adrian Dobb, a Stanford professor and author of the Cancel Culture

1:17.6

how an American obsession went global and he joins us to impact the moral panic around cancel culture,

1:22.6

its global spread, and the societal power dynamics driving the phenomenon.

1:25.6

Adrian Daube is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University,

1:31.6

where he serves as the faculty director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

1:35.8

He's the co-host of the In Bed with the Right and the Feminist Present Podcasts,

1:40.1

and also the author of the new book, The Cancel Culture Panic, How an American Obsession

1:44.1

Went Global. He joins me now to talk about it. Adrian, thanks so much for being here.

1:48.4

Thank you for having me. So I want to start with a definitional question. What exactly is a moral

1:53.6

panic? Because something you say in the book is that a moral panic is not mere mass hysteria.

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