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Podcast: Kat Rosenfield and the Face Stomping Boot

A conversation on cancel culture whiplash and power. And then also about writing and art.

I’ve been following Kat Rosenfield on Twitter (I am never calling it X) for what feels like a long time but then again a lot has happened in the last few years. She’s been a very principled voice against cancel culture when it was coming from the left and, in a surprising move to many, continues to be against it when it is coming from the right.

I laughed at the following because it seems that we are in the early days of a very substantial shift in attitude and I see many on the right giving voice to these pro-social-censorship attitudes.

So I invited Kat to talk about this. Kat has this really interesting theory that the machine that was built up around cancel culture simply is not going to go away and that we’re probably just not going back to the before times.

We also talked about politics in publishing and art and about the deep thirst that people seems to have for solid entertainment that isn’t preachy and has no ax to grind.

I had a great time.

Show Notes and Links

I asked Kat what writers she follows and likes who address these issues and here is her list:

At The Atlantic, she recommends Connor Friedersdorf and Tyler Austin Harper.

On Substack, she recommends

who hosts The Unspeakable podcast.

With the Free Press, she recommends Larissa Phillips, River Page, and Rupa Subramanya.

Kat writes for The Free Press and writes really engaging thriller novels.

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