The Canceling of the American Mind

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A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times

Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic: it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on social media, it is a dysfunctional part of how individuals battle for power, status, and dominance. It's just one symptom of a much larger problem: why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?

In this book, Lukianoff and Shlott analyze the pervasive effects of cancel culture, drawing on original research and data, along with hundreds of new examples showing how the left and the right both work to silence their enemies in different ways.

Eye-opening, urgent and transformative, The Canceling of the American Mind offers concrete steps towards reclaiming a culture of free speech, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders and all those who use social media. It shows how we can all harness intellectual humility to become more resilient and open minded.

©2023 Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • No one has documented the facts and causes of this alarming trend more thoroughly than Greg Lukianoff, joined here by a collaborator, Rikki Schlott

    author of Rationality

  • Brilliant, an essential book… takes us one step further than simply describing and analyzing the problem. They offer serious, rational, and cogent solutions

    author of Heretic

  • Important and very timely… it should be required reading for everyone who believes in freedom of speech

    author Wake Up

  • Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott make an inconvertible case: If we had set out as a society to generate a doctrine designed specifically to demoralize young people-to deprive them of hope and fill them with anxiety-we could not have done better than Cancel Culture, which emphasizes victimhood, emotional fragility, a penchant for avoidance and the absolute right to self-conceptualization. We’ve enabled the purveyors of malicious gossip, the reputation-savagers, the masters of innuendo-and allowed them to cloak themselves in the guise of compassion. Lukianoff and Schlott are rightly calling on all of us to stand up and say so

    author of 12 Rules for Life

  • Cancel Culture is very real and very dangerous – and this book is the most comprehensive look at the rot threatening our institutions and freedoms

    founder of The Daily Wire

  • A humanizing and passionate cry for intellectual independence and those who want to think and speak for themselves

    co-founder of the Forward Party

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