by Ben Shapiro
Abdi, Barkhad, 141
Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud, 155, 157
Abrams, Samuel, 92
Academy Awards, wokeness and, 139–43
Acosta, Jim, 11, 187
Adair, Bill, 184–85
Adidas, 135
Adorno, Theodor, 6–7, 8–9
advertising, the left and conservative media, 180–82
Age of Entitlement, The (Caldwell), 125
Alcindor, Yamiche, 176
Alcorta, Candace, 83
Aldous, Sally, 203
Alexander, Peter, 187
Alinsky, Saul, 61–62
Altemeyer, Robert, 7–8
alternative institutions, need to build, 225
Amazon, 112, 146–47, 194, 210, 211
Amazon Web Services, 12, 136, 210
American Civil Liberties Union, 40
American Federation of Teachers, 136
American Medical Association, 113
American Physical Society, 113
American Protective League, 49
Angewandt Chemie (journal), 116–17
anti-conventionalism, 64, 82
culture and, 26, 31
left wing authoritarianism and, 8, 14, 15
renormalization of American institutions and, 39, 91
Revolutionary Impulse and, 47, 54, 56
Utopian Impulse and, 47, 48
anti-discrimination law, 58, 68, 137, 223
Apple, 12, 121, 210
Arizona, 135
Association for Computing Machinery, 114
Association of American Medical Colleges, 115
Atkinson, Rowan, 150
Atlantic, The, 153, 175
Attiah, Karen, 176–77
authoritarian aggression, 7, 9
Authoritarian Personality, The (Adorno et. al), 7
authoritarian submission, 7, 9
authoritarianism
Constitutional checks and balances to protect individual rights, 5–6
dangers of reactionary and utopian brutality and, 5
human nature and, 4–5
see also cultural authoritarianism; left-wing authoritarianism; right-wing authoritarianism
B&H Photo, 122
Bailey, James R., 126
Balz, Dan, 64
Bank of America, 135, 136
Baquet, Dean, 36, 220
Barrett, David, 131
Barton, Marty, 172
Bash, Dana, 186
Beauchamp, Zack, 18
Bell, Derrick, 56–57, 60, 68
Bellah, Robert, 87
Ben & Jerry’s, 121
Bennet, James, 174–75
Benson, Guy, 177
Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM), in 1964, 89–91
Berns, Walter, 90
Biddle, Sam, 208
Biden, Jill, 78–79
Biden, Joe
call for end of shareholder capitalism, 130
culture war and, 42–43
election of 2020 and, 27–28, 31, 65–66
endorsed by corporate CEOs, 131
Hunter Biden and Ukraine, 189–90
media and, 169, 171, 186
ScienceTM and endorsement of, 117
unity agenda of, 67
as vice president, 61, 63
on Zuckerberg, 198
Black Lives Matter, 146–47, 149, 154, 164, 165, 177, 207
corporations and, 120–23
coverage of January 6 storming of Capitol compared, 177–78
COVID 19 health protocols, 97–104
media narrative of “mostly peaceful” riots, 163–66
sports and, 157, 159–60
Blake, Jacob, 164
Bleedover Effect, ScienceTM and, 103–4, 110–11
Bloom, Allan, 90
Blow, Charles, 2–3
Boghossian, Peter, 85–86
Boone Isaacs, Cheryl, 140–41
Boot, Max, 11, 182
Boreing, Jeremy, 224
Bork, Robert, 42
Breitbart, Andrew, 146
Brock, David, 181
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy, 174
Brown, Michael, 140, 157, 164, 172
Brown University, 112
Burisma, Hunter Biden and, 189–90
Burns, Allan, 144
Burr, Bill, 150
Bush, Cori, 13
Bush, George W., 46, 53
Business Insider, 168
BuzzFeed, 202
Caldwell, Christopher, 57, 125
Callendar, James, 169
cancel culture
entertainment and, 147–50
Left’s denial of existence of, 20, 180
ScienceTM and, 114
capitalism
benefits of, 130
corporations and free markets, 124, 128–29, 138
stakeholder capitalism versus shareholder capitalism, 129–31
Carano, Gina, 213–15
Carmichael, Stokely, 55–56, 68
Carter, Jimmy, 52
Cashin, Sheryll, 69–70
Cathy, Dan, 133
Ceci, Stephen, 203
censorship. See top-down censorship
Center for American Progress (CAP), 64–65
Center for Antiracism Research, 197–98
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), COVID 19 vaccines and social justice, 104–6
Chait, Jonathan, 2
Chappelle, Dave, 150, 153
Chick-fil-A, 133
China, 135, 146, 159–60
Chomsky, Noam, 41
Christakis, Nicholas and Erika, 93
Cisco, 121–22
Citigroup, 136
civil rights movement
corporations and, 124–25, 128–29
Revolutionary Impulse and, 55–58
Zuckerberg and, 199–200
class-divided culture, Marxist theory of, 30, 54–55
climate change, Scientism and, 106–10
Clinton, Bill, 46, 52–53, 58
Clinton, Hillary, 24, 65, 181, 191
Clyburn, James, 13
CNN, 11, 185, 191
Coca-Cola, 39
Colbert, Stephen, 78
Cole, Harold, 51
Coll, Steve, 184
Color of Change, 133, 149
Columbia University, 90
Coming Apart (Murray), 77
Communications Decency Act, Section 230, 193–96
Community (television program), 148
community organizers, 47, 61–62
conventionalism, right-wing authoritarianism and, 7, 9
Conway, Lucian, 7–8
Cook, Tim, 121
Coolidge, Calvin, 49–50
Cops (television program), 149
Cordiality Principle, 32–34, 89, 218, 219
Cornell University, 90–91
corporations, 37, 120, 126–27
Black Lives Matter movement and, 120–23
boycott of those dissenting from wokeism, 133–34
customer bases and renormalization via market forces, 125–26
diversity training and environment of conformity, 121–22, 131–32
free markets and, 124, 129, 138
growth of, 137–38
legal liability for diversity and, 124–25, 127
media and, 133–34
policies and political bifurcation of markets, 134–37
retroactive cancellation of employment and, 123–24
statements regarding supposed systemic racism, 120–23
Costello, Thomas, 8
Cotton, Tom, 174–75
COVID 19, 129, 138
health protocols and exceptions for Floyd protests and riots, 97–104
vaccines and social justice, 104–6
credentialism, universities and, 73–80
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
basic principles of, 56
Biden administration and, 66, 68
Obama’s intersectional coalition and, 59–61
Revolutionary Impulse and, 55–59
&
nbsp; critics, entertainment’s liberalism and, 151–54
Cruz, Ted, 25
Cullors, Patrisse, 123
cultural authoritarianism
consequences of disagreeing with, 15–21
insecurity and actual minority position of, 22
left’s undermining of values of conservatives, 32–34
as threat to U.S., 20–21
Cuomo, Chris, 165–66
Daily Caller, 198
Daily Wire, 180, 215, 224, 225
Darcy, Oliver, 182
de Blasio, Bill, 101
Deadspin, 156
Debs, Eugene V., 49
deconstruction, 83, 85
renormalization of higher education and, 85–86, 88–89
DeGeneres, Ellen, 143
Delgado, Richard, 56
DeSantis, Ron, 99
Deutsche Bank, 135
Dewey, John, 49
Dhillon, Ranu S., 101
DiAngelo, Robin, 81, 82, 132
Dimon, Jamie, 136
Discover, 136
Disney+, 146, 148–49, 213–15
Diversity Delusion, The (Mac Donald), 87
Doherty, Tucker, 168–69
Domingos, Pedro, 221–22
Dooling, Kathleen, 104–5
Dorsey, Jack, 192, 197–98
Duplass, Mark, 17–8
Duvernay, Ana, 140–41
EA Sports, 158
Econ Journal Watch, 92
Ejiofor, Chiwetel, 141
election of 1924, 49–50
election of 1988, 64
election of 2004, 45, 53, 59
election of 2008, 46, 60, 62, 63
election of 2010, 46
election of 2012, 45–48, 59–66
election of 2016, 23–27, 65, 195–96
election of 2018, 27
election of 2020
Democratic platform and strategy in, 67–70, 71
intersectional coalition and, 65–66, 71
Left’s call for “unity” after, 42–44
social media and Hunter Biden Burisma information, 189–92
voting patterns in, 27–28, 31, 70
see also U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021, storming of
Electronic Freedom Foundation, 194
elites. See New Ruling Class
Emerging Democratic Majority, The (Teixeira and Judis), 65
Emhoff, Douglas, 78
empathy, as liberals’ definition of virtue, 34
Enlightenment principles
individualism and, 87–89, 107
Scientism and, 107
entertainment, radicalization of
Academy Awards and wokeness, 139–43
cancel culture and, 147–50
cultural impact of, 143–47
indoctrination to wokeism and, 160–61
renormalization of Hollywood, 145–47, 150–54
renormalization of sports, 154–60
Epstein, Joseph, 78
Equal Justice Initiative, 121
Equinox, 133
ESPN, 155–59
Evergreen State College, 93
Expensify, 131
expressive individualism, universities and, 87–89
Facebook, 205, 211
algorithms for censorship and “fact checking,” 192, 202–5
“hate speech” policy, 204–5
and left’s reactions to storming of U.S. Capitol, 12–13, 210
restrictive content regulations of, 183–84
Section 203 and, 194
shift to role as information gatekeeper, 196–98
Fairness Doctrine, media and, 182–83
“fake news” concept, 195–96. See also media
Fat Studies (journal), 85
Feinberg, Joel, 35
Feinstein, Dianne, 195–96
First Amendment. See freedom of speech and the press
First National Bank of Omaha, 135
Flanagan, Caitlyn, 186
Floyd, George, 99–100, 163–64. See also Black Lives Matter
Fox News, 182, 184
Frankfurt School, 6–9, 54
freedom of speech and the press
conservative media and cancel culture, 180–85
Left sees as protection for special groups, 170–71
social media and “hate speech,” 26, 204–5
Freeman, Morgan, 160
Frenkel-Brunswik, Else, 7
Friedersdorf, Conor, 42
Fromm, Erich, 54
“frozen prejudices,” minority coalitions and, 39
Fruit by the Foot, 121
Fuller, Joseph, 75–76
Gabbart, Blaine, 157
Galam, Serge, 39
Galligan, Jimmy, 207
Garber, Megan, 152
Garcetti, Eric, 101
Garza, Alicia, 123
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), 147–48
Gebru, Timnit, 206
Gender, Place, and Culture (journal), 85
gender dysphoria, ScienceTM and, 112–13
Georgia, 135, 146
Ghostbusters (2016 film), 151–52
Giannulli, Olivia Jade, 74–75
Giridharadas, Anand, 184
Glasser, Ira, 92–93
Glassman, Greg, 122
Gleiberman, Owen, 151
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 175
Goldberg, Jonah, 51
Goldman Sachs, 128
Gone With the Wind (film), 148
Gonsalves, Gregg, 102
Goodell, Roger, 160
Google, 194–95, 206, 211
Parler banned by, 12, 210
Goolsbee, Austan, 138
Goya, 133
Gray, Freddie, 140
Great Depression and Great Society, Utopian Impulse and results of, 50–51, 52
Green Book (film), 140
Green New Deal, 109
Gregory, Thomas, 49
Groves, Mimi, 206–7
gun rights, corporations and, 135–36
Gupta, Vanita, 191
Gushers, 121
Halpin, John, 64–65
Ham, Mary Katherine, 177
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, 11, 29, 115, 165, 178–80
Harding, Warren G., 49
harm, left’s lack of distinction between offense and, 35
Harris, Adam, 80
Harris, Leslie, 179
Harris, Sam, 16, 111
Harris poll, 156
Hart, Kevin, 142–43
Harvard Business Review, 126
Harvard Crimson, 91
Harvard University, 90
hashtag #MeToo, 142
hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, 140
Hastings, Reed, 121
hate speech. See freedom of speech
Hawley, Josh, 12
Hayes, Chris, 176
HBOMax, 146
Heritage Foundation, 109
Herndon, Astead, 174
Heyer, Heather, 93
Hill, Jemele, 158–59
Hill, Marc Lamont, 166
Hillbilly Elegy (film), 153
Hillbilly Elegy (Vance), 76–77
Hinton, Elizabeth, 166
Hollywood, 142, 144
Academy Awards and wokeness, 139–43
critics versus fan opinions and, 151–54
cultural impact of move from traditional values toward liberalism, 143–47
depiction of conservatives, 145–47
renormalization of, 145–47, 150–54
Hollywood Reporter, 212
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 49
Holocaust, Carano’s social media post about, 212
Hopkins, Harry, 51
Horkheimer, Max, 54
Hudlický, Tomáš, 116–17
Hudson, Dawn, 139–40
Huffman, Felicity, 73–74
identity politics
Obama and, 47–48
Revolutionary Impulse and, 53–59, 66
woke vocabulary and, 80–81
immigration issues, 62, 63,
67, 71, 135
Instagram, 78, 123, 205, 207, 210, 211
intersectional coalition, 45–48, 59–66
intersectional-progressive coalition, 69–71
renormalization of America and, 67
Revolutionary Impulse and, 39
intersectionality, 80–81, 204
James, LeBron, 160
January 6, 2021. See U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021, storming of
Jefferson, Thomas, 169
Jenkins, Barry, 141
Jha, Ashish, 102
Johansson, Scarlett, 149
Johnson, Dr. Jasmine, 102
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 51–52, 57
Jones, Alex, 176
Jones, Dr. Maura, 102
Jones, Tom, 90
Jones Day law firm, 43
Jordan, Michael, 155
Judis, John, 65
“justice,” attaching of modifiers to, 84
Kaepernick, Colin, 157–58, 160
Kaufman, Eric, 29–30
Kendi, Ibram X., 68, 81, 82, 115, 197–98
Kerry, John, 45
Kimball, Roger, 89
Kimmel, Jimmy, 142
King, Brandon, 133
King, Jason, 210
Kirk, Russell, 33
Krauss, Lawrence, 111
Kristof, Nicholas, 182
Krugman, Paul, 2, 108
Lasch, Christopher, 77–78, 83–84
Latinx, 71, 84
Laughlin, Lori, 73–74
LeCun, Yann, 206
Lee, Spike, 140
left-wing authoritarianism, 7–9, 32–33
Cordiality Principle and absence of moral judgment, 32–34
demand for silence and compliance in speech, 34–36
January 6, 2021, storming of U.S. Capitol and, 11–14
Overton Window and censorship, 40–42
reactions to Trump’s election and, 23–30
renormalization and, 37–39
ways to challenge, 211–18, 223–24
Lemon, Don, 2, 167–68, 176
Levinson, Daniel, 7
Liberal Fascism (Goldberg), 51
liberals, media conflict between left and, 173–80
Lincoln Project, 43
Lindsay, James, 82–83, 85–86
Lippman, Walter, 170–71
Littman, Lisa, 112
Loomer, Laura, 136
Lowery, Wesley, 172–73
Lucasfilm, 213–14
Lynch, Frederick, 115–16
Mac Donald, Heather, 87, 166
Macron, Emmanuel, 94
Madison, James, 5–6
Mailchimp, 136
Man Show, The (television program), 142
Manhattan Institute, 76
March for Life, media’s distorted accounts of, 185–86
Marcus, Bess, 112
Marcus, Julia, 102
Marcuse, Herbert, 8–9, 54
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