The rise of cancel chic

Liberal journalists are so desperate to be canceled they’ve begun to form secret societies around the theme

Last summer, at a secretive dinner in Manhattan, I heard a New York Times staffer regale our table with some tales. He told us about how a dozen or so people had, like him, faced the most perilous horror imaginable for a blue checkmark Twitter person. They’d been canceled.

For some, it was a tweet. For others, posing in a photograph with a Republican, or…