The Authoritarian Moment CD: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent – Political Analysis Audiobook for Conservatives, Liberals & History Buffs – Perfect for Commuting, Research & Debate Prep
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New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic.But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left?There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition.The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed.Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it.More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts,The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.
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Review by Richard Bayer, PhDBen Shapiro is driven to write for the sake of America, and for the future of his children (to whom the book is dedicated) in a country on the brink of the loss of the freedoms promised to us by our founding fathers and mothers. (226) The passion of the author is quite evident in the book, making it a captivating read. The book is exhaustively researched.According to S. the danger in our time is not from an authoritarian right. Those who broke into the capital January 6 imagining they were helping President Trump, wearing bull horns, are little danger. The concern today is the authoritarian left which has captured and weaponized most of our major institutions: elementary education (Critical Race Theory or CRT), academia, politics, the legal system, the media, and so forth. Penalties from the authoritarian left include social ostracizing, career suicide, to name just two.Popular submission to this “new normal” has come relatively swift. S. points out insightfully that “It took just a few weeks from the splitting of the Red Sea for the Jews to embrace the Golden Calf.” (4). S. also points out that human nature has an authoritarian instinct. The Jews dissatisfaction with Judges and preference for the authority of a King is case in point.I would have liked to see S. discuss more of the positive methods of resistance to the new normal. Public schools have students with parents who can influence the process. Local schools also have “Boards of Education” for which anyone in the district can run. The media is truly a plural term these days. Alternative views can be aired and acted upon. News outlets such as CNN, Fox, Msnbc, ABC, etc. bring quite different perspectives and worthy interpretations. So, it seems to me that the system has checks and balances which can be put into action.“The authoritarian moment relies on the acquiescence of a silent majority. We must no longer be silent.” (227) Then a new birth of freedom can begin. S. ends on a hopeful note.The book is a must read for anyone in the field of social ethics. It may well be his fourth New York Times bestseller.RICHARD C. BAYER, PhD.Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (degree granting institution)
