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Are you ready to break down conflict and build consensus on polarizing topics? Ideally, education equips students to care about the world and helps them shape their futures. In an era that has become incredibly polarized, we can help our students learn how to come together despite differences. Michelle Blanchet and Brian Deters show how all educators can equip our youth with skills to become active and engaged citizens. A one-off course on civics is not enough. Preventing Polarization offers basic strategies that every teacher can use. You will create experiences to help students break down...

An inside look at how the governments of Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India and the US used COVID as a pretense to undermine freedom The Infodemic lays bare the mechanisms of modern censorship and shows how they were used to undermine the response to the greatest global pandemic in a...

Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild is Michelle Malkin's unrestrained and uncensored exposé of hate-mongering Leftists. With wit, wisdom, and a bullet-proof vest, Malkin ruthlessly and raucously skewers the myths of liberal tolerance, peace, and civility while responding to the incendiary insults and vile slurs directed at her and other conservatives. With infuriating details that are not for the faint of heart, Malkin chronicles the bizarre world of foaming-at-the-mouth Leftists in their natural habitats

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, Unapologetically Woke, Dr. Marcus Mottley takes you on a transformative journey into the heart of political and social consciousness. This book is an unwavering rallying cry for a generation ready to confront the world’s most pressing social justice issues head-on. Dr. Mottley unflinchingly delves deep into the multifaceted complexities of being ‘woke’ in an unjust world, challenging readers to confront uncomfortable truths about ‘ism’s (racism, sexism, etc), privilege, oppression, and the worldwide perpetuation of systemic inequities. ...

Eine linke Revolution hat Amerika erfasst: Im Namen von Gerechtigkeit und Antirassismus greift dort eine Ideologie um sich, die neue Intoleranz erzeugt - in liberalen Medien kann ein falsches Wort Karrieren beenden, an den Universitäten herrscht ein Klima der Angst, Unternehmen feuern Mitarbeiter, die sich dem neuen Zeitgeist widersetzen. In vielen Porträts und Geschichten beschreibt René Pfister, Büroleiter des SPIEGEL in Washington, diese neue politische Religion - und zeigt auf, warum die amerikanische Demokratie nicht nur von rechts unter Druck kommt.

Hailed as the 'first freedom', free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech's many defenders, Mchangama demonstrates how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide.

"Manipulating Minds" delves deep into the labyrinthine world of propaganda, unearthing its historical roots, diverse applications, and evolving techniques....+

Brought to you by Penguin. Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat? Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues that alongside the necessary and...

The modern-day media has warped our sense of reality, affecting every aspect of our lives and the way we perceptive the truth. Day in and day out, we are being sold lies because media effectively turns fiction into fact. After 50 years of the status quo, this book takes a deeper look at the secrets behind fraudulent news and how it has upended nearly every aspect of the public and the private lives of individuals, as well as the vital institutions in America. This book takes you into the reality of the media’s war on education, COVID tyranny, election fraud, and more.

This volume examines the Supreme Court's landmark decisions relating to First Amendment rights, including the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The book discusses how the Court's actions relating to freedom of expression have evolved over recent decades and in light of recent events. Cases discussed include Alvarez (2012), USAID (2013), Heffernan (2016), Packingham (2017), and Iancu (2019).

From New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce law and passed a severe new obscenity law. An 1861 Act of Parliament streamlined the harsh criminalization of sodomy.

Bradley Manning perpetrated the biggest breach of military security in American history. While serving as an Army intelligence analyst, he leaked an astounding amount of classified information to WikiLeaks: classified combat videos, plus hundreds of thousands of documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and from embassies around the globe. Nearly all of WikiLeaks' headline-making releases of information have come from a single source: Bradley Manning.

It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organization WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files, and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.

From the Black Death to the Spanish Flu, from HIV to COVID-19, The Secret Plague peels back the carefully constructed narratives and uncovers the disturbing patterns that history tries to forget. With a journalist’s eye for detail and a researcher’s hunger for truth, this book dives into suppressed vaccine trials, lab-created viruses, eugenics disguised as philanthropy, and eerily predictive simulations that seemed to script our present long before it arrived.

As the Conservaphobic-Left wages their war on conservatives, they are taking down their own in the process. The Liberal Machine's escalation of virtue-signalling, cancel culture, speech censorship, racist critical race applications, and other tactics are only making it worse. Find out what they are doing so we can prepare for what will come next. Can you survive the Great Cancellation?

When the Second Amendment becomes more important than the First, truth gets put on the endangered list.

Censorship's Grave looks at modern methods of circumventing censorship and counteracting effects of information warfare. It argues that autocrats are losing the battle of censorship in an information age they no longer control. Unfortunately, the new information age contains a spectrum of arguments - from truth to blatant lies. The book was written by an author who has traveled extensively in countries with restricted media and used circumvention tools in all of them. It conveys a warning to not trade one disinfo system for another one.

Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published. Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is 'acceptable' in published works have shifted over the centuries and from culture to culture. Packed with eye-opening insights into the history of the written word and the political and social climate during the period of suppression or censorship, this is a must-listen for anyone interested in literature, creative writing, politics, history or law.

The culture wars are at the heart of American politics, and they are tearing the country apart. Wokeness is at the center of this debate. This book delves into how social justice fanaticism, or Wokeness, festers in universities and then spreads throughout society. It covers topics like diversity training, microaggressions, control of language, affirmative action, obsessions around race and gender, campus uprisings, and the chilling effect these ideas have on freedom of speech. The Left has used the term "cultural hegemony" to describe how the Right has control over America's institutions, ...

Facebook, Google, X (Twitter) & Co., die "Big Tech" genannten IT-Riesen aus dem Silicon Valley, glauben, die Kommunikationsstandards von Milliarden Menschen über ihre Richtlinien und Standards vorschreiben zu können. Diese Anmaßung erfolgt ohne jede demokratische Legitimation. Durch ihre geradezu monopolistische Stellung bestimmen sie die Rahmenbedingungen öffentlicher Kommunikation. Mit dramatischen Konsequenzen: tausendfacher Rechtsbruch, digitale Massenvernichtung freier Rede und drastische Eingriffe in die Meinungsfreiheit sind die Folge.