The Canceling of the American Mind

No one has documented the facts and causes of this alarming trend more thoroughly than Greg Lukianoff, joined here by a collaborator, Rikki Schlott – Steven Pinker * 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 – Ayaan Hirsi Ali * author of Heretic *Important and very timely… it should be required reading for everyone who believes in freedom of speech – Piers Morgan * 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 – Jordan B. Peterson * 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 – Ben Shapiro * founder of The Daily Wire *A humanizing and passionate cry for intellectual independence and those who want to think and speak for themselves – Andrew Yang * co-founder of the Forward Party *This riveting book presents compelling stories about Cancel Culture and its devastating impact … a game-changer in the Culture Wars – Nadine Strossen * former president of the ACLU *bold, timely and buttressed by data * The Economist *

Greg Lukianoff (Author)

Greg Lukianoff is a lawyer, First Amendment expert and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom From Speech.

Rikki Schlott (Author)

Rikki Schlott is a journalist and political commentator. She is a columnist at the New York Post and co-host of the Lost Debate podcast, as well as a former research fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.