Please Cancel the Norman Mailer Panic

Accusations of “cancel culture” built on manufactured facts end up manufacturing facts of their own

Two of several books by Norman Mailer in my home library. Photo by L.D. Burnett.

Don’t ever fall for “cancel culture” caterwauling. Ever. Don’t fall for it from Michael Wolff, or Joyce Carol Oates, or David Rieff, or anyone else who has been peddling Wolff’s “scoop” that a junior staffer at Random House quashed a…