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Censorship

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  • Censorship (212)
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Bestsellers

The Information State Audiobook By Jacob Siegel cover art
The Information State
  • The Information State

  • Politics in the Age of Total Control
  • By: Jacob Siegel
  • Narrated by: Jacob Siegel
  • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
  • Performance
    1
  • Story
    1

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

By: Jacob Siegel

Manufacturing Consent Audiobook By Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky cover art
Manufacturing Consent
  • Manufacturing Consent

  • The Political Economy of the Mass Media
  • By: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,140
  • Performance
    936
  • Story
    924

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic...

  • Eye opening

  • By EFM on 03-24-18

By: Edward S. Herman, and others

You Can Do It! Audiobook By Rob Schneider cover art
You Can Do It!
  • You Can Do It!

  • Speak Your Mind, America
  • By: Rob Schneider
  • Narrated by: Rob Schneider
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    379
  • Performance
    362
  • Story
    362

An unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from a legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider’s childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixed-race backgrounds shaped his view of the world: that America...

  • Supposed to be humour, political rant instead

  • By Angie J Martin on 11-02-25

By: Rob Schneider

Triggered Audiobook By Donald Trump Jr. cover art
Triggered
  • Triggered

  • How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
  • By: Donald Trump Jr.
  • Narrated by: Donald Trump Jr., James Edward Thomas
  • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4,975
  • Performance
    4,417
  • Story
    4,400

This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read: Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to rampant "political correctness." ​ In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr...

  • Mediocre

  • By Joel dredla on 11-09-19

By: Donald Trump Jr.

The Indispensable Right Audiobook By Jonathan Turley cover art
The Indispensable Right
  • The Indispensable Right

  • Free Speech in an Age of Rage
  • By: Jonathan Turley
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    162
  • Performance
    146
  • Story
    145

A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United...

  • Great, remarkable history lesson, should you think we haven’t been through this thing before…in one form or another.

  • By B. A. Whitehouse II on 08-04-24

By: Jonathan Turley

Speechless Audiobook By Michael Knowles cover art
Speechless
  • Speechless

  • Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
  • By: Michael Knowles
  • Narrated by: Michael Knowles
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3,925
  • Performance
    3,492
  • Story
    3,476

“Political correctness” has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation....

  • Speechless- Not

  • By Monicalu42 on 06-28-21

By: Michael Knowles

The Information State Audiobook By Jacob Siegel cover art
The Information State
  • The Information State

  • Politics in the Age of Total Control
  • By: Jacob Siegel
  • Narrated by: Jacob Siegel
  • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
  • Performance
    1
  • Story
    1

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

By: Jacob Siegel

Manufacturing Consent Audiobook By Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky cover art
Manufacturing Consent
  • Manufacturing Consent

  • The Political Economy of the Mass Media
  • By: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,140
  • Performance
    936
  • Story
    924

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic...

  • Eye opening

  • By EFM on 03-24-18

By: Edward S. Herman, and others

You Can Do It! Audiobook By Rob Schneider cover art
You Can Do It!
  • You Can Do It!

  • Speak Your Mind, America
  • By: Rob Schneider
  • Narrated by: Rob Schneider
  • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    379
  • Performance
    362
  • Story
    362

An unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from a legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider’s childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixed-race backgrounds shaped his view of the world: that America...

  • Supposed to be humour, political rant instead

  • By Angie J Martin on 11-02-25

By: Rob Schneider

Triggered Audiobook By Donald Trump Jr. cover art
Triggered
  • Triggered

  • How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
  • By: Donald Trump Jr.
  • Narrated by: Donald Trump Jr., James Edward Thomas
  • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4,975
  • Performance
    4,417
  • Story
    4,400

This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read: Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to rampant "political correctness." ​ In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr...

  • Mediocre

  • By Joel dredla on 11-09-19

By: Donald Trump Jr.

The Indispensable Right Audiobook By Jonathan Turley cover art
The Indispensable Right
  • The Indispensable Right

  • Free Speech in an Age of Rage
  • By: Jonathan Turley
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    162
  • Performance
    146
  • Story
    145

A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United...

  • Great, remarkable history lesson, should you think we haven’t been through this thing before…in one form or another.

  • By B. A. Whitehouse II on 08-04-24

By: Jonathan Turley

Speechless Audiobook By Michael Knowles cover art
Speechless
  • Speechless

  • Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
  • By: Michael Knowles
  • Narrated by: Michael Knowles
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3,925
  • Performance
    3,492
  • Story
    3,476

“Political correctness” has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation....

  • Speechless- Not

  • By Monicalu42 on 06-28-21

By: Michael Knowles

Propaganda Wars Audiobook By Glenn Beck, Justin Haskins cover art
Propaganda Wars
  • Propaganda Wars

  • How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel
  • By: Glenn Beck, Justin Haskins
  • Narrated by: Glenn Beck
  • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    85
  • Performance
    77
  • Story
    77

In Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel, New York Times bestselling writers Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins uncover the secrets behind the greatest system of control and manipulation ever created.

  • Timely and thought provoking!

  • By darin leetun on 01-01-25

By: Glenn Beck, and others

The Pentagon Papers Audiobook By Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, Hedrick Smith, James L. Greenfield - forewor
The Pentagon Papers
  • The Pentagon Papers

  • The Secret History of the Vietnam War
  • By: Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, and others
  • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
  • Length: 37 hrs
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    125
  • Performance
    106
  • Story
    105

The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles and documents examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about US involvement in the Vietnam War....

  • Awful as an audiobook

  • By Sean on 02-08-18

By: Neil Sheehan, and others

Unmasked Audiobook By Andy Ngo cover art
Unmasked
  • Unmasked

  • Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
  • By: Andy Ngo
  • Narrated by: Cecil Harold
  • Length: 9 hrs
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2,400
  • Performance
    2,110
  • Story
    2,100

In this #1 national bestseller, a journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and tactics. When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those...

  • Excellent

  • By Colleen on 02-11-21

By: Andy Ngo

They Came for the Schools Audiobook By Mike Hixenbaugh cover art
They Came for the Schools
  • They Came for the Schools

  • One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
  • By: Mike Hixenbaugh
  • Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh
  • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    75
  • Performance
    69
  • Story
    69

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Read by Author, Mike Hixenbaugh, who delivers this compelling and eye-opening account. The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education...

  • Informative,..scary as hell…a wake up call for ALL Americans

  • By debra on 05-19-24

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

Disloyal: A Memoir Audiobook By Michael Cohen cover art
Disloyal: A Memoir
  • Disloyal: A Memoir

  • The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
  • By: Michael Cohen
  • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    8,717
  • Performance
    7,423
  • Story
    7,378

The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....

  • Amazing Story

  • By Krish on 09-09-20

By: Michael Cohen

Playground Audiobook By Jennifer Saginor cover art
Playground
  • Playground

  • A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
  • By: Jennifer Saginor
  • Narrated by: Kassidy Cortese
  • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    199
  • Performance
    194
  • Story
    194

In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began....

  • Missing Mom

  • By Stephanie on 09-14-24

By: Jennifer Saginor

You Can't Joke About That Audiobook By Kat Timpf cover art
You Can't Joke About That
  • You Can't Joke About That

  • Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together
  • By: Kat Timpf
  • Narrated by: Kat Timpf
  • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    721
  • Performance
    617
  • Story
    618

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public...

  • Love Kat.. Great perspective, and I laughed "too"!

  • By johnatakis on 04-19-23

By: Kat Timpf

LikeWar Audiobook By P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking cover art
LikeWar
  • LikeWar

  • The Weaponization of Social Media
  • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    983
  • Performance
    857
  • Story
    852

Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

  • Good Information Ruined by Whining Political Bias

  • By Scott on 12-28-18

By: P. W. Singer, and others

Spin Dictators Audiobook By Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman cover art
Spin Dictators
  • Spin Dictators

  • The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
  • By: Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
  • Narrated by: David de Vries
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    95
  • Performance
    78
  • Story
    76

Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power....

  • Excellent analysis with mediocre presentation

  • By David on 10-15-22

By: Sergei Guriev, and others

Murder the Truth Audiobook By David Enrich cover art
Murder the Truth
  • Murder the Truth

  • Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
  • By: David Enrich
  • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    101
  • Performance
    97
  • Story
    97

New York Times Bestseller ""Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth...

  • The current threat against journalists

  • By Kirk Writes on 04-04-25

By: David Enrich

The Diversity Delusion Audiobook By Heather Mac Donald cover art
The Diversity Delusion
  • The Diversity Delusion

  • How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
  • By: Heather Mac Donald
  • Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
  • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1,316
  • Performance
    1,147
  • Story
    1,134

This program includes an introduction read by the author. By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning. America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first...

  • Definition of the campus 'diversity' issue

  • By Wayne on 09-10-18

By: Heather Mac Donald

Viewpoint Diversity Audiobook By John Tomasi - editor, Bernard Schweizer - editor cover art
Viewpoint Diversity
  • Viewpoint Diversity

  • What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It
  • By: John Tomasi - editor, Bernard Schweizer - editor
  • Narrated by: Jeff Moon
  • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
  • Performance
    1
  • Story
    1

Viewpoint diversity is suddenly on everyone’s lips—yet few agree on what it really means. Is it about political balance? Free speech? Academic inclusion? Or something far more vital—the courage to engage across difference?

By: John Tomasi - editor, and others

Cancel Culture Dictionary Audiobook By Jimmy Failla cover art
Cancel Culture Dictionary
  • Cancel Culture Dictionary

  • Cancel Culture Dictionary An A to Z Guide to Winning the War On Fun
  • By: Jimmy Failla
  • Narrated by: Jimmy Failla
  • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    154
  • Performance
    144
  • Story
    144

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You may know Jimmy Failla as the best dressed man in cable news. A force multiplier of positive energy on the radio who sounds like he gets paid in Tequila and Tide Pods. But he’s also a former New York City Taxi Driver who’s spent countless hours conversing...

  • Book 1 of the Jimmy Failla Collection

  • By Debra on 02-07-24

By: Jimmy Failla

Censors at Work Audiobook By Robert Darnton cover art
Censors at Work
  • Censors at Work

  • How States Shaped Literature
  • By: Robert Darnton
  • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    10
  • Performance
    9
  • Story
    8

This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works....

By: Robert Darnton

The Practical Guide to Free Speech Audiobook By Tom McHale cover art
The Practical Guide to Free Speech
  • The Practical Guide to Free Speech

  • The Common-Sense Guide to the First Amendment (Practical Guides)
  • By: Tom McHale
  • Narrated by: Tom McHale
  • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0
  • Performance
    0
  • Story
    0

The Practical Guide to Free Speech turns one of America’s most misunderstood freedoms into an engaging, surprisingly fun exploration of how the First Amendment actually works. Imagine a world where an off-color joke or unpopular opinion could land you in jail.

By: Tom McHale

That Librarian Audiobook By Amanda Jones cover art
That Librarian
  • That Librarian

  • The Fight Against Book Banning in America
  • By: Amanda Jones
  • Narrated by: Amanda Jones
  • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    61
  • Performance
    54
  • Story
    54

Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.

  • Great message everyone should be aware

  • By Shelly on 09-30-24

By: Amanda Jones

Necessary Illusions Audiobook By Noam Chomsky cover art
Necessary Illusions
  • Necessary Illusions

  • Thought Control in Democratic Societies
  • By: Noam Chomsky
  • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
  • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    92
  • Performance
    80
  • Story
    80

Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control....

  • Seminal work ruined by a terrible performance.

  • By R. Kuprov on 04-14-17

By: Noam Chomsky

Dangerous Audiobook By Milo Yiannopoulos cover art
Dangerous
  • Dangerous

  • By: Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Narrated by: Milo Yiannopoulos
  • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3,643
  • Performance
    3,352
  • Story
    3,341

The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands....

  • Do I Dare to give less than 5 🌟🌟?

  • By rkbarclay88 on 09-30-17

By: Milo Yiannopoulos

Get Trump Audiobook By Alan Dershowitz cover art
Get Trump
  • Get Trump

  • The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law
  • By: Alan Dershowitz
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    148
  • Performance
    122
  • Story
    122

Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—analyzes the unremitting efforts by political opponents of Donald Trump to “get” him—to stop him from running in 2024—at any cost....

  • Good Book

  • By Ron on 05-12-23

By: Alan Dershowitz

Laptop from Hell Audiobook By Miranda Devine cover art
Laptop from Hell
  • Laptop from Hell

  • Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
  • By: Miranda Devine
  • Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3,243
  • Performance
    2,814
  • Story
    2,801

The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret....

  • I knew the laptop was bad, but wow!

  • By brewcitydep on 12-04-21

By: Miranda Devine

See Something Say Nothing Audiobook By Philip Haney, Art Moore cover art
See Something Say Nothing
  • See Something Say Nothing

  • A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad
  • By: Philip Haney, Art Moore
  • Narrated by: Michael Gilbert
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    174
  • Performance
    147
  • Story
    145

When recently retired DHS frontline officer and intelligence expert Philip Haney bravely tried to say something about the people and organizations that threatened the nation....

  • poorly written

  • By R. C. Kahrl on 05-12-17

By: Philip Haney, and others

Free Speech and Why It Matters Audiobook By Andrew Doyle cover art
Free Speech and Why It Matters
  • Free Speech and Why It Matters

  • Why It Matters
  • By: Andrew Doyle
  • Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
  • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    132
  • Performance
    114
  • Story
    111

Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years, it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn...

  • Least we forget

  • By C8 on 04-06-22

By: Andrew Doyle

Free Speech on Campus Audiobook By Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman cover art
Free Speech on Campus
  • Free Speech on Campus

  • By: Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
  • Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
  • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    38
  • Performance
    34
  • Story
    34

This book offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when dealing with free speech controversies....

  • A must read for understanding the 1st Amendment!

  • By Kimberly Finnegan on 12-27-18

By: Erwin Chemerinsky, and others

Banning Books in America Audiobook By Samuel Cohen cover art
Banning Books in America
  • Banning Books in America

  • By: Samuel Cohen
  • Narrated by: Kate Handford, Kenneth Medford
  • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0
  • Performance
    0
  • Story
    0

Banning Books in America features novelists on banning and being banned, arguments about the histories and politics of book banning, readings of banned books in national and international contexts, and responses to new legislation by anti-censorship advocates, teachers, and librarians.

By: Samuel Cohen

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