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Live and let live: US comedian Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! for making jokes relating to the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney
CANCEL CULTURE

Why free speech matters: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and cancel culture

Why hate speech should not be banned and why there is no way of dealing with it — except more speech

  • Rafael Winkler
6 min read
Too controversial, won’t see: TLDR (2017) actors (top) Tenderlove, Duduzile Dlamini, Regina High, Jenny and Zoe Black, and (above) Gabbi, Emmah, Jowi, Connie and Nosipho ‘Provocative’ Vidima appear in the video installation by Candice Breitz (right), which has summarily been cancelled in Germany. Image stills: Goodman Gallery. Photo: Till Cremer
ANTI SEMITISM

The complex art of the kibosh

South African-born Jewish artist Candice Breitz has had her exhibition in a German museum scrapped

  • Charles Leonard
8 min read