Why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career?
First Amendment rights lawyer Greg Lukianoff teams up with Rikki Schlott to show how a trend of
intolerance on university campuses in America has spread to a wide range of workplaces and
cultural spaces which are giving up on a culture of free speech in favour of cancel culture.
Drawing on original research and data along with hundreds of new examples from publishing to
psychotherapy comedy science and medicine this book shows how the left and the right both
work to silence their enemies in different ways. It's not simply a matter of Twitter spats
people are losing their jobs livelihoods and sometimes their lives over it. Eye-opening
urgent and transformative The Canceling of the American Mind argues that cancel culture is not
merely a moral panic but a dysfunctional way in which people battle for power status and
dominance: moving us away from being able to argue productively listen generously and
ultimately be civil when we disagree. This book 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.
