Cancel Culture, Alan M. Dershowitz
Cancel Culture, Alan M. Dershowitz
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Cancel Culture
The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/10/2021


Synopsis

Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed "shoe-on-the-other-foot test," to those who have been "cancelled" for any number of faults, both real and imagined.

Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture, he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism.

About Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights." He is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Trials of Zion, Rights from Wrongs, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah. Alan is also an emeritus professor of law at Harvard Law School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sebastian on September 21, 2021

Let me make it clear - the part of the book which is explicitly on Cancel Culture is worth at least 4.5 stars. The author has succeeded in capturing the essence of the issue, provided some good examples, made some good points about why it's so dangerous. But this material is literally not more than......more

Goodreads review by Ross on April 12, 2021

It's not saying anything new. It's cancel culture 101 with an admittedly one-sided conception of what cancel culture is. The author is 82 years old, and though it may be ageist to say, it reads as if that's the target audience: crotchety old people who bemoan the changing cultural milieu.......more

Goodreads review by Janet on April 18, 2021

This very short offering by Dershowitz was informative and actually opened my eyes to a different way of thinking about certain aspects of Cancel Culture. Among other appreciations, I have a better understanding of the separation of creation of laws and their enforcement based on the governmental en......more

Goodreads review by Meg on September 21, 2022

For my IP.........more

Goodreads review by Shifty Reads on May 10, 2021

While this book was very informative, the author was more of a cry baby than any man I had the non pleasure to meet.......more