The cancel culture panic: how an American obsession went global

Introduction : exporting a moral panic

What we talk about when we talk about cancel culture

Word histories

The imagined campus

The neoconservative view

The will to melodrama

The techniques of a panic : anecdote, subscription, essayism

Cosmopolitan provincialism : how "cancel culture" gets imported

Cancel culture adaptation

Conclusion : liberalism and illiberalism.