The Authoritarian Moment

How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

By: Ben Shapiro

Narrated by: Ben Shapiro

New York Times Bestseller

How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?

According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic.

But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left?

There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition.

The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed.

Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it.

More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts,The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.

This is real information

Ben Shapiro educates you inthis book of what is really going on with American and enemys within and what we can do to stop their agenda.

Captures today's biggest issue in American Society

Amazing work outlining cancel culture and the liberal left's authoritarian attack on the American people.

Excellent

A very well written and researched book concerning politics and free (or lack of) speech in today’s America. Shapiro covers everything from big tech censorship, Hollywood, and today’s troubled landscape of politics In general.

I recommend to everyone on both sides of the aisle.

Undeniable

Ben Shapiro has his fingers on the pulse of America. He has a way with words and a way of understanding what American society looks like in the 21st-century.

Reluctantly nodding in agreement to the end.

Ben Shapiro masterfully defends conservative viewpoints throughout this work. If I never hear a mainstream media figure voice the concerns found in this book then, my consolation prize is that there are people like Shapiro who will echo the frustrations of many centrist Americans about cultural and political issues we face every day. This book is a megaphone calling out to all of us who want to return to normalcy and not re-normalize the country.