The Authoritarian Moment, Ben Shapiro
The Authoritarian Moment, Ben Shapiro
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The Authoritarian Moment
How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

Bestseller

Author: Ben Shapiro

Narrator: Ben Shapiro

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/27/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro is founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of ""The Ben Shapiro Show,"" the top conservative podcast in the nation. A New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an Orthodox Jew. His work has been profiled in nearly every major American publication, and he has appeared as the featured speaker at many conservative events on campuses nationwide, several of those appearances targeted by progressive and “Antifa” activists.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsey on August 08, 2021

If you already like Shapiro, this is an unnecessary read. If you hate Shapiro, then he’s probably writing about you. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, consider reading it.......more

Goodreads review by Brice on August 22, 2021

Maybe I’ll review this at length later, but honestly, it’s such a task to review a Ben Shapiro book. It’s a task because every time I ever have, I’ve been questioned by people for daring to even read him… which happens to cogently prove the thesis of this book. Ironic.......more

Goodreads review by Stetson on July 29, 2021

The child prodigy turned young gun conservative activist/pundit turned motor-mouth king of the normie Right's internet and podcast space is at it again, minting political content as if it's free MMT money from our U.S. Treasury. This time Shapiro's penned a slender volume called The Authoritarian Mo......more

Goodreads review by Robbie on August 07, 2021

Full disclosure, I do listen to Ben Shapiro with some regularity and generally consider myself, to some extent, a libertarian, although I'm aware there are all sorts of stereotypes and nasty connotations that label provides, so I'm going to do my very best at giving a perspective on this short book......more

Goodreads review by Drtaxsacto on July 31, 2021

As another reviewer has suggested Jonah Goldberg’s classic on liberal fascism is this book’s predecessor. Both are well worth reading. But there are a couple of additions to this book that, even if you read Goldberg’s book - you should read this. First, Shapiro analyzes the problem of the Authoritar......more