The authoritarian moment : how the left weaponized America's institutions against dissent / Ben Shapiro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- How to silence a majority -- How the authoritarian left renormalized America -- The creation of a new ruling class -- How Science defeated actual science -- Your authoritarian boss -- The radicalization of entertainment -- The fake news -- Unfriending Americans -- The choice before us.

Shapiro knows there are 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 college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising leftists 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. Shapiro lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology, and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future. -- adapted from jacket.