Is Freedom of Speech, Free?
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Is Freedom of Speech, Free?

A Conversation on Cancel Culture and Discourse

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About the Event:

How does cancel culture impact our social, cultural, and political lives? With The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan leading the discussion, join Johns Hopkins’ Yascha Mounk, out with his latest book The Identity Trap; and FIRE President Greg Lukianoff and journalist Rikki Schlott, co-authors of The Canceling of the American Mind, for a captivating conversation about the complexities of our current cultural landscape.

A book signing will follow this program.


  • Chicago Humanities is pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a Chicago not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling. Pre-order your copy of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution through the Chicago Humanities Box Office and save 20% while supporting local, independent bookselling. Add books to your cart when adding tickets. Your receipt will contain a book voucher, which you will show to the bookseller on-site to pick up your book(s).
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Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy....

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Rikki Schlott

Rikki Schlott

Rikki Schlott is a New York City-based journalist and political commentator. She is a research fellow at FIRE, host o...

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Greg Lukianoff

Greg Lukianoff

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the president and CEO of the Foundation...

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Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic, to which she has been a contributor since 1998. She has wr...

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