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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“Canceling the Op-Ed,” Journal of Controversial Ideas (forthcoming)
The Op-Ed is Op-Dead
So calling something an “Op-Ed” is racist, now?
First they came for Dr. Seuss and I did nothing because he was just a children’s writer. Then they came for the Op-Eds but there was no one left to protect them.

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Speaking of cancellation, the first article that I wrote with @oonahathaway was on "cancellation" in international law, what we call "outcasting." We argued there that in contrast to domestic law, where centralized institutions do things to scofflaws, /1
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