Against Thought That Stops Thought

he author of the number-one Amazon bestselling book with no words, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, has written his second book on the corruption of political language. Michael Knowles’s Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds is an unrelenting assault on politically correct pieties. Having emerged in recent years as a prominent young voice on the right, Knowles hosts an eponymous Daily Wire podcast, PragerU’s Book Club, and co-hosts The Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

Speechless shows he also has ambition to move beyond punchy commentary to take on the big philosophical questions of the day. While Knowles inveighs daily against the cultural Left, his book reserves its harshest criticism for the intellectual Right, which “through decades of incompetence has permitted political correctness to invert our culture.” Knowles is even critical of the Right’s crusade against “cancel culture.” He contends that all cultures cancel, and that there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. The moral question is what is cancelled and why.

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