Cancelers canceled at Simon & Schuster: A small sign that cancel culture may have peaked, at least in book publishing, is worth noting
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A small sign that cancel culture may have peaked, at least in book publishing, is worth noting. The president of Simon & Schuster, Jonathan Karp, has announced that his firm will ignore a petition from its staff (reportedly, 216 employees and thousands of sympathizers) demanding that plans to publish an autobiographical memoir by former V.P. Mike Pence be canceled.
Thomas Lipscomb, a publishing industry veteran, takes note and celebrates the act of courage in the Asia Times: