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A Badge of Honor

A Badge of Honor

In “A Badge of Honor,” Taki Theodoracopulos writes about Mailer and cancel culture:

Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line. In Mailer’s novel An American Dream, the protagonist Stephen Rojack murders his wife and then shags the maid. The “woke” girls are up in arms, as well they should be.

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This is for you writers out there: if you’re not canceled, you’re no good. The good Dr. Seuss is out, as is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; Adolf
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