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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

552. Greg Lukianoff on Superheroes and Cancel Culture

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:17.0

Hello, in welcome to episode 552 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:25.0

I'm David Barr Curley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories.

0:30.0

Publishers Weekly says,

0:31.9

Vissural settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much currently is able to fit into a limited page count.

0:38.0

For SF fans with no time to sink into a doorstopper,

0:42.0

these concentrated doses of genre goodness will hit the spot.

0:45.8

And Kirkus Reviews writes, currently employs sharp concise pros that compliments his pucish

0:50.7

sense of humor.

0:52.1

The author's passionate voice breathes life into this wonderful array of tales.

0:56.0

So again, the book is called Save Me Please and Other Stories, and it's available now on Amazon.com. And our guest today is Greg Guikianov, president of Fire, the foundation for

1:08.6

individual rights and expression, a free speech advocacy group. He's also the author along with Jonathan Hight of the

1:15.2

best-selling book The Coddling of the American Mind, How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas

1:19.9

are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. And in this interview will be exploring his love of superhero comics,

1:26.0

and discussing his new book, The Cancelling of the American Mind,

1:29.0

Cancell culture undermines trust and threatens us all.

1:32.0

But there is a solution, which he wrote with Ricky Schlott.

1:36.2

And now here's her interview with Greg Guikianov.

1:38.8

All right, so we're here with Greg Guikianov.

1:41.6

Welcome to the show.

1:43.2

Thanks for much for having me.

1:45.5

OK, so on Twitter, you said, I spent the early years of my life

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