Congratulations to our friend, onetime colleague, and TWS contributing editor Mary Katharine Ham, who has just released End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). It’s published by Crown Forum, it’s a bargain at $26—and like MKH herself, it’s both informative and funny.
The subject, however, is no joke. Mary Katharine and her coauthor Guy Benson offer chapter and verse on how free speech is genuinely imperiled in America: by the media and academic thought police, by political correctness, by a left so fearful of competing ideas (not to mention facts and figures) that it strives to shout them down and shut them up. To her credit, she approaches it all with humor and perspective. But with scrupulous reporting, voluminous detail, and plenty of scary stories, as well, she makes a startling case of how dangerous it can be—to life and career—to speak your mind, assert the truth, or express an opinion unwelcome to the left.
Do we exaggerate? Not really. So buy this book—and fight back!
