In the latest cancel culture news, a literary group fired a young agent after less than three weeks on the job when transgender activists spotted some of her tweets they found offensive.

On Aug. 5, Sasha White, a 25-year-old editorial assistant, announced on her professional Twitter account that she had accepted a position in New York at the Tobias Literary Agency, a boutique firm specializing in horror and mystery novels. From that point, she used her agency-identified account to post general and publishing industry news and solicit manuscripts from potential clients.

Netflix apologized last week after promotional materials for one of its upcoming films sparked accusations it hypersexualized young girls.

The summary for the French drama Cuties, which is scheduled to hit the streaming platform on Sept. 9, originally read, “Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family’s traditions.”

When HBO Max users started streaming Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles last week, they noticed the subscription service had added something new: a warning.

Now, before the parody about a black sheriff who wins over the white population of an Old West town begins, University of Chicago film professor Jacqueline Stewart comes on screen to explain that “racist language and attitudes pervade the film.” She points out that Brooks used small-minded characters to illustrate the absurdity of racism.

The rollout of the new documentary Uncle Tom is, in itself, evidence of its thesis that the media prefers to ignore or mock black conservatives rather than engage with their arguments.

It’s a little hard to understand what made The Outpost one of the best-reviewed releases of the last few months. Certainly the Afghan War drama, which hit streaming services on July 3, has the kind of pedigree the critical class would be most likely to praise. 

“This is a chance to rebuild, to fight for the future,” a pretty, young Moscow reporter tells British freelancer Gareth Jones midway through the excellent 2019 film Mr. Jones. She’s convinced the Soviets are fighting for “the real people, the workers.” She tells herself that burying information on Stalin means restraining Hitler. She believes she’s a crusader on the right side of history, a moderating force for good.

It’s hard to imagine that a few years ago a gauzy public statement in favor of free speech, boasting signatures from a host of left-wing luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, and Fareed Zakaria, would have caused much of a stir. But last week, when Harper’s Magazine released a letter warning, “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” the backlash was swift and sharp.