{"id":5638,"date":"2025-12-08T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:22:31","slug":"cancel-culture-goes-back-at-least-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/cancel-culture-goes-back-at-least-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Culture Goes Back At Least 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"547\" data-attachment-id=\"5639\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/cancel-culture-goes-back-at-least-50-years\/aei-cancel-culture\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture.png\" data-orig-size=\"1294,691\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AEI Cancel Culture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-300x160.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-1024x547.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-1024x547.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-1024x547.png 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AEI-Cancel-Culture.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 20, 1974,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edwardcbanfield.org\/\">Edward C. Banfield<\/a>\u00a0took the stage at the University of Chicago\u2019s Oriental Institute. He was there to deliver a lecture, \u201cThe City and the Revolutionary Tradition,\u201d which was one of a series of talks to commemorate the upcoming bicentennial of the American Revolution. Banfield was a bespectacled, thin man with stooped shoulders from acute transverse myelitis, an inflammatory spinal cord disease he had contracted earlier in his life. Visiting Chicago was a bit of a homecoming for him&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanenterprise.com\/cancel-culture-goes-back-at-least-50-years\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 1974,\u00a0Edward C. Banfield\u00a0took the stage at the University of Chicago\u2019s Oriental Institute. He was there to deliver a lecture, \u201cThe City and the Revolutionary Tradition,\u201d which was one of a series of talks to commemorate the upcoming bicentennial of the American Revolution. 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