There’s No Such Thing as Cancel Culture

Social norms are a never-ending contest

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In one of the most gripping, visceral portrayals of human experience in all of cinema, Glenn Close makes the viewer feel what no one ever wants to feel: unalloyed shame.

The scene unfolds at the end of the film Dangerous Liaisons, set in the hedonistic courtly society of pre-Revolutionary Paris. Glenn…