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Dr. Adam Szetela - Wokeism and Cancel Culture in the Publishing Industry (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_865)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Adam's book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049856/that-book-is-dangerous/ _______________________________________ My website: https://www.gadsaad.com   If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on August 28, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1884: https://youtu.be/S7UenhgtT8c _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

I am delighted to report that I have joined as a visiting scholar, the Declaration of Independence

0:05.4

Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.

0:10.5

The center offers educational opportunities, speakers, internship, and reading groups for the

0:16.3

University of Mississippi community.

0:18.9

It is named in honor of the United States founding document,

0:22.6

which constitutes the nation as a political community and expresses fundamental principles of American freedom,

0:30.6

including in the recognition of the importance of Judeo-Christian values in shaping American exceptionalism.

0:42.0

Dedicated to the academic and open-minded exploration of these principles,

0:48.3

the Center exists to encourage exploration into the many facets of freedom.

0:53.9

It will sponsor a speaker series and an interdisciplinary faculty research team. If you'd like to learn more about the

0:55.9

center, please visit Olmiss. That's O-L-E-M-I-S-S-D-U-S-Independence slash.

1:05.0

Hi, everybody. This is Got Sad. After a bit of a break, we were away with the family in bermuda then i had a speaking engagement

1:13.3

in seattle i'm back in my home base and my first guest post-family vacation is adam setella who is a

1:22.4

he shares my alma mater he is a phd in english from Cornell University, and he was kind enough to put immediately above his beautiful head a copy of a book.

1:34.0

I hear that the author of that book is an incredibly wise and good looking man.

1:37.7

Thank you for putting him up.

1:39.4

Adam, how are you doing?

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I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.

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It's a pleasure to have you.

1:43.8

I wanted to begin by

1:45.8

letting people know about your book. First book, correct? First book, yeah. Yes. So here it is. That book

1:54.1

is dangerous. Exclamation point. How moral panic, social media and the culture wars are remaking publishing.

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