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  • Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution
  • Written by: Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
  • Narrated by: Rikki Schlott, Kirby Heyborne
  • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The Canceling of the American Mind

Written by: Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
Narrated by: Rikki Schlott, Kirby Heyborne
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A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.

Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies.

The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is just one symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to “win” arguments without actually winning arguments. After all, why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career?

The good news is that we can beat back this threat to democracy through better citizenship. The Canceling of the American Mind offers concrete steps toward reclaiming a free speech culture, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders, and everyone who uses social media. We can all show intellectual humility and promote the essential American principles of individuality, resilience, and open mindedness.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott (P)2023 Simon & Schuster Audio

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A must read to understand the current zeitgeist

This is outstanding work the best work of non-fiction I have read in at least a decade and an absolute must for anyone who truly wants to understand how we got here. This is no right-wing book it’s a non-partisan, flawlessly argued and meticulously researched work that traces the increasingly confounding attitudes towards free speech at American (and Canadian) Universities. This is not about the right to offend it’s about how these institutions fulfil a crucial social function and their influence radiates to other American institutions… If we cannot have good faith conversations to grapple with the biggest questions of our time in Universities where can we have them? When we can no longer have these discussions every other civil institution suffers… Democracy itself suffers. I would heartily recommend this enlightening and engaging book to anyone who is serious about wanting to understand the times we are living in and how we might make this world a better place.

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The Tyranny of the Minority

This book reinvigorates a free speech culture and does a good job at reminding people that the cancellers are those of the Minority. We must be brave and stand up for free speech, and for each other.

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