The big thinkers at Aperture examine the social dynamics and consequences of cancel culture. US military carries out strikes in Venezuela College football fans loved Laura Rutledge’s viral sprint to ...

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Long before social media pile-ons and apology notes became standard, celebrities were still being quietly erased. Careers stalled. Invitations stopped. Studios backed away. The difference was that it ...

On Sunday night Bari Weiss, the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News, abruptly stopped a forthcoming 60 Minutes report on the torture endured by migrants in the brutal El Salvadoran ...

For most of my life, I have lived simultaneously in two very different worlds. In my most recent book, "I’m The Worst," I detail my story of both having grown up a pastor’s kid and the son of a ...

This year, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn both deliver star turns as complicated, volatile characters amid volatile political environments. In Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Roberts plays Alma ...

The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing their control over institutions and the public by undermining First ...

After texts between Lawrence Summers and Jeffrey Epstein surfaced, the cancel-culture machine set the sad Ivy League veteran on the path to ruin. But Larry Summers consented to his own cancellation 20 ...

Eddie Murphy dismissed cancel culture and hinted at a stand-up return while promoting his Netflix documentary “Being Eddie.” Eddie Murphy brushed off cancel culture and hinted at a possible return to ...

Graphic of four people. some drawbacks of cancel culture include its tendency for hypervigilance and tunnel visioning. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. If you spend time on social media, you’re ...

Harvard Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker condemned the rise of cancel culture in higher education at an Institute of Politics forum on Wednesday, telling his audience that academics must avoid ...

From celebrities to everyday users, one wrong move online can trigger a digital firestorm. This essay unpacks the psychology behind cancel culture—and why fear, shame, and social media make such a ...