The canceling of the American mind cancel culture undermines trust and threatens us all--but there is a solution
"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 it...
| Main Authors: | Lukianoff, Greg (Author), Schlott, Rikki (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : pandora's toolbox
- Part one: What is cancel culture?
- Case study : Hamline University
- The gaslighting of the American mind
- The slow motion trainwreck
- Campuses remain ground zero
- Case study : the story of Mike Adams
- DEI statements and the conformity gauntlet
- Part two: How cancel culture works
- Case study : Covid-19
- No man's land
- Case study : journalism
- The perfect rhetorical fortress
- Case study: The fortress in action: Stanford Law School
- Legislating censorship on the right
- Case study : campus cancel culture from the right
- The efficient rhetorical fortress
- Case study : psychotherapy
- Social media, polarization, and radicalization
- Case study : science and medicine
- Part three: What to do about it
- Raising kids who are not cancelers
- Case study : publishing
- Keeping your corporation out of the culture war
- Case study : comedy
- Fixing K-12
- Case study: Yale University
- Reforming higher education
- The adulthood of the American mind.