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Applebaum who wrote about wokeness, cancel culture. >> we're going to turn to a piece in the current issue of "the atlantic" that should be on everyone's must-read list. it's by staff writer at the atlantic, ann applebaum. also with us is prize winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene anderson. the new piece is entitled "the new puritans" and it discusses the rise of mob justice in today's culture and its long-term effects, and you write in part, this, the modern online public's fear, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid idealogical pri...

Applebaum, i start with the salem witch trials, hawthorne and then the trial of ann hutchinson, people who were pushed out because of cancel culture back then, and i try to make sure, i say in the very first class, there are 75 people in the say let's talk about cancel culture. let's be up front about this. and i have found -- now this is down here at tulane -- i have found that students are very much pushing back in the direction saying we want to speak out, we don't want to be afraid and i say this class is a safe zone. you're free to say whatever the you want, and we will respect what every...

Complicated. >> gene robinson is with us ann and has a question for you. >> ann, i guess my question is, is this a qualitatively different process from what's always happened? is this new because of social media and the speed and volume of condemnation that comes or is it -- is it the fact that every generation defines its sort of values and mores and that the younger generation, whatever that generation happens to be at the time, tends to win those battles because it lives longer? and so, if -- whenever i hear people our age, you know, talking about these kids today and how they are and how p...

A crime. instead of courts they see rive beau rock caseys, instead of hearing evidence they make judgments behind closed doors. this is a story of moral panic, cultural institutions policing or purifying themselves in the face of disapproving crowds. the crowds are no longer literal, as they once were in salem but rather online mobs organized via twitter, facebook, or sometimes internal company slack channels. >> by the way, the victims of this mob justice are certainly not confined to the right. so many are also on the left, whether in media or whether in academic circles, wherever it is. ann...

What will be this sort of fight for this $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. that's going to be a really, really important part of the president's agenda while, of course, events like afghanistan and the covid surge have defined the last month of his presidency. he is someone who wants to be focussed on the economy and talk about the idea that the way to get through this pandemic, the way to get to a better place for americans overall is through helping them with the changing climate and also helping them with the economics of surviving amid a pandemic. >> yamiche, thank you very much. live fro...