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Cancel Culture is a new phenomenon, and\\xa0The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies.

The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is just one symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to \\u201cwin\\u201d arguments without actually winning arguments. After all, why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career?

Shermer, Lukianoff and Schlott discuss: \\u2022 the definition of Cancel Culture \\u2022 The Henny Youngman Principle: \\u201cCompared to what?\\u201d \\u2022 Cancel Culture as imagined moral panic \\u2022 Cancel Culture on the political Left/Right and on social media \\u2022 free speech law vs. norms \\u2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) \\u2022 sensitivity training \\u2022 bias hotlines and silencing of speech \\u2022 pluralistic ignorance \\u2022 The 4 Great Untruths \\u2022 Jean Twenge\\u2019s theory of generational change \\u2022 solutions to Cancel Culture.

Greg Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and one of the country\\u2019s most passionate defenders of free expression. His law degree is from Stanford. He worked for the ACLU of Northern California, the Organization for Aid to Refugees, and the EnvironMentors Project before joining FIRE in 2001.

Rikki Schlott is a New York City-based journalist and political commentator. She is a research fellow at FIRE, host of the Lost Debate podcast, a columnist at the New York Post, and a regular contributor to numerous publications and television programs. Her commentary focuses on free speech, campus culture, civil liberties, and youth issues from a Generation Z perspective.