Feb. 8, 2021, 6 p.m. Online only. Free and open to the public. Registration required.听Part of the Benson Center's 2020-21 "The Canceled" lecture series.
麻豆影院 the Webinar:
Perhaps more insidious than the outright prohibition of expressing contrary opinions are the myriad ways in which, fearing social disapprobation, we elect to censor ourselves. Drawing on classical and contemporary texts, this lecture explores the logic of tacitly coerced conformity, and applies that logic to a number of currently relevant cases.
麻豆影院 the Speaker:
Glenn C. Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds the BA in Mathematics (Northwestern) and the PhD听in Economics (M.I.T). As an economic theorist he has published widely and lectured throughout the world on his research. 听He is also among America鈥檚 leading critics writing on racial inequality. He has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, as a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.听
麻豆影院 the Series
In听recent months, social coercion has become a more effective means of restricting political speech than legal coercion. Opinions that were once common are now anathema, and campaigns to de-platform or even 鈥渃ancel鈥� proponents of these opinions are increasingly frequent. These attempts at "cancellation" are not merely fair-minded criticism. Rather, they involve efforts to punish those with heterodox views by banishing them from social media, pressuring their employers to fire them, harassing them in public, or threatening their families. These new methods of social coercion have curtailed the range political views that can be expressed publicly without fear of social sanction.听This听series听considers the implications of the new cancel culture, the norms it imposes on thought and expression, and the conformism it attempts to compel.
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