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Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
What if, instead of overthrowing the farmer as in Animal Farm, the livestock just worked the place after he died? That's what happens on Green Pastures Farm, which then thrives by hewing to certain rules, the most important of which is NO TRESPASSING. But an injured doe shows up, and compassion trumps the rule; fortunately, she leaves upon recuperating. A raccoon proposes to pick the fruit the domestic critters can't reach in return for a berth out...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Political correctness" has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation. In the workplace, on social media, and even at the dinner table, Americans are confronted daily with a laundry list of words they're "not allowed" to say-and that list is updated constantly and without warning. How did so absurd a concept become so dangerous-and come to dominate our public discourse over the last quarter-century? InSpeechless,...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers volume 12
Language
English
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to his 2016 best-seller The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray interrogates the vicious new culture wars playing out in our media, universities, homes and perhaps the most violent place of all: online. The Madness of Crowds is a must-read polemic-a vociferous demand for a return to free speech in an age of mass hysteria and political correctness. The global conversations around sexuality, race, mental health and...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It has become virtually impossible to honestly discuss race, gender, and class issues in mainstream American society because if you dare repeat certain "tabootruths," you'll be ostracized as a bigot. Professor Wilfred Reilly (author of Hate Crime Hoax) fearlessly presents 10of these truths here and investigates why the mainstream is so afraid to acknowledge that they're true. Among these taboo truths: Men and women are different, although equal. There...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Comedian and podcast king Adam Carolla and radio talk show host Dennis Prager take the audience on a powerful and entertaining journey to expose the growing threat to free speech taking place on university campuses, in social media, and at your place of work. Along the way, Carolla and Prager show Americans how to have the courage to defend their First Amendment rights.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
Publisher
Salem Books, an imprint of Regenery Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To show the world you're a good person-and also to avoid getting canceled and having your life ruined by a Twitter mob-you need to get WOKE. In The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, the writers of satirical sensationThe Babylon Beetell you how to choose your pronouns, blame everyone else for your problems, and show the world how virtuous you are with virtue-signaling profile pictures and stunning and brave hashtags. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the far...
10) Beyond woke
Author
Publisher
New England Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A few short years ago, Michael Rectenwald was a Marxist professor at NYU, pursuing his career and contemplating becoming a Trotskyist, when the political climate on campus - victimology, cancel-culture, no-platforming, and political correctness run-amok - began to bother him. He responded by creating a Twitter handle, @AntiPCNYUProf (now @TheAntiPCProf), and began bashing campus excesses with humor and biting satire. Predictably, he was soon discovered...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show, The Saad Truth, Dr. Gad Saad exposes how an epidemic of idea pathogens are spreading like a virus and killing common sense in the West. Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life, Dr. Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe...
12) No safe spaces
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Terrifying violence on college campuses across America. Students lashing out at any speaker brave enough to say something they disagree with. Precious snow flakes demanding "Safe Spaces" to protect them from any idea they haven't heard from their liberal professors. In this book and the accompanying movie, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, and Adam Carolla expose the attack on free speech and free thought. It began in the universities, but--fair warning--it's...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
Thirteen leading authors of books for young people speak out about the experience of having their work challenged or banned in the United States today. In interviews...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose 'newspeak' the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable - and worrying - effects of 'groupthink', and its...
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