Having not yet had the displeasure of suffering large-scale internet ire, I can only imagine what it is like to be canceled. When I try, I think of the famed documentary “Day of the Dead” (1985)....

In one of my favorite books, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterwork “The Scarlet Letter,” the ostracized protagonist Hester Prynne declares to her ex-lover Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, “Let God punish! Thou...