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What Cancel Culture Has In Common With Medieval Outlawry Reason.com

By Thomas A. Smith

Cancel culture has often been compared to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s (R Wisc.) hunt for communists in the 1950s. That’s not a bad parallel, so far as it goes. But I think a more useful analog is found in more distant history: Cancellation is remarkably similar in spirit to the outlawry of medieval England.

via reason.com