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“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I mean: stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” —CANDACE OWENS

"The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ

A New Strategy: We Win, They Lose

The Culture War is over, and the culture lost.

The Left’s assault on liberty, virtue, decency, the Republic of the Founders, and Western civilization has succeeded.

You can no longer keep your social media account—or your job—and acknowledge truths such as: Washington, Jefferson, and Columbus were great men. Schools and libraries should not coach children in sexual deviance. Men don’t have uteruses.

How did we get to this point?

Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire exposes and diagnosis the losing strategy we have fallen for and shows how we can change course—and start winning.

In the groundbreaking Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds Knowles reveals:

How the “free speech absolutists” gave away the store
The First Amendment does not require a value-neutral public square
How the Communists figured out that their revolution could never succeed as long as the common man was attached to his own culture
Where political correctness came from
How, comply or resist, political correctness is a win-win game for the bad guys
Why taking our stand on “freedom of speech” helps put atheism, decadence, and nonsense on the same plane with faith, virtue, and reality
The real question: Will we shut down drag queen story hour, or cancel Abraham Lincoln?
For 170 years the First Amendment was compatible with prayer in public school
How the atheists got the Warren Court to rule their way
To this day, there’s a First Amendment exception for obscenity. What exactly is the argument that perverts’ teaching toddlers to twerk is not obscene?

Read Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds if you want to learn how to take the fight to the enemy.

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“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I mean: stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.”

—CANDACE OWENS, bestselling author of Blackout, founder of BLEXIT, and host of Candace

“Michael Knowles is one of the most important conservative leaders of his generation. . .. Speechless is the most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ, #1 bestselling author of One Vote Away

“Michael Knowles is a rare combination: the conservative who understands the roots of his opponents’ thought, and the fighter who understands the necessity for tactical aggression.” —BEN SHAPIRO, #1 bestselling author and host of The Ben Shapiro Show

“This book is a howitzer in the fight against the totalitarians. . ..” —DAN BONGINO, bestselling author and host of The Dan Bongino Show

“Magnificent. . .. like nothing you’ve ever read. . .. Tough love for hapless right-wingers forfeiting our culture to the radical Left.” —ANN COULTER, political commentator and bestselling author of ¡Adios, America!

“This book is a must-read for anyone who hopes to preserve our culture.” —MIKE POMPEO, former U.S. secretary of state

“Michael Knowles is a national treasure.” —CHARLIE KIRK, bestselling author and host of The Charlie Kirk Show

“This book is a must-read for anyone wanting a diagnosis on how American culture and politics became so ill.” —ANDY NGÔ, journalist and bestselling author of Unmasked

“Knowles has written an insightful and gripping deconstruction of the mind-prison called political correctness. . .. This is a must-read.” —ANDREW KLAVAN, Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author and host of The Andrew Klavan Show

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Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of the Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show and PragerU's The Book Club and is the #1 national bestselling author of Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide. Knowles appears regularly across FOX and other major networks as a political analyst and regulalry writes for the Daily Wire, Fox News, the Daily Caller, and others. Now residing in Los Angeles, Michael is a graduate of Yale University and has lectured on college campuses and at research institutions throughout the country.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (June 22, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684510821
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684510825
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.29 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

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Mark Maxfield

Brilliant exposition of the why and how of the destruction of our society

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023

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Knowles writes in clear, concise language the history, development and ongoing process of destruction being waged by the falsely named "progressives" and "liberals" against our society and against Western Culture. And what is more, EVERY claim Knowles makes is footnoted with source. He establishes quite definitely how these so-called "progressives" and "liberals" are literally the ANTITHESIS of progress and of liberal thinking--and that their goal is nothing more glamorous than destruction for destruction' sake.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2023

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You probably know what to expect if you've looked for this book. Yes it's everything you've heard so far. Worth having in your library.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023

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This speaks to the volume of political correctness in todays time. How the left weaponizes it and uses it for evil.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2023

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Amazing book every American should read. Details how sinister censorship is taking place in our country.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2023

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Important insight into our culture

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If you want a detailed map of how our language and culture evolved over the past few generations, “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds” by Michael Knowles [ding-ding!] is an ideal place to start. The role of higher education, social media and political influence are examined, along with many classical literary and philosophical passages. A bit dry at first, Knowles ties it together at the end with a call for purpose and action. The list of Works Cited/Notes in the back of the book serves as a comprehensive reading list on the subject and alone is worth the price.

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Persuasive

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As a Classical Liberal who has listened to Michael Knowles podcast quite a few times, I did not expect to come into this book agreeing with much he had to say. His insistence that conservatives whom tend to align with liberals on cultural issues such as gay marriage are "squish conservatives (weak conservatives" is a particular point which always gets to me. For most of the book this was the case until I got to about halfway through it. Once I hit a point about how certain issues have changed culture in a negative way I truly became interested in the book and more throughly began to understand things from a conservative perspective that I never had before. For me this has been one of the most persuasive political books I have read. Truly wish I could find a liberal alternative which could explain a reasonable Liberal perspective and didn't rely on shaming the reading into agreeing with their perspective simply out of enforced guilt.

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Jessica Barrett

Absolute MUST read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2023

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Michael Knowles is incredible!

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Ricky

Words Fail Me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 7, 2021

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Michael Knowles has produced a substantial rebuttal to the world of Political Correctness. Delving into the origins of the concept, he appreciates that it is about more than simply censorship or curtailing individual freedom. PC does not allow for compromise between different viewpoints. Instead, it aims for mastery in defining everything according to its own terms. It aims to impose ‘Cultural Marxism’ on society, a collective view of the human being that decries the concept of the Individual and views everything through a prism of Orwellian ‘Newspeak’.
The battleground is in the words themselves, words that often fail to convey traditional meanings, resulting in a battle of competing narratives that cannot find common ground. He contends that it is the failure by conflict-averse conservatives to really understand PC, that has allowed many to fall for its traps while in has installed itself in our culture. He states that the aim of PC is to destroy the standards that have traditionally held the West together. Without standards, many of which were derived from Christianity, society has opened it gates to “the thought that stops thought”, as G K Chesterton once wrote. Like Chesterton, Knowles believe that free speech has to have limits, and that civilisation has to be civil.
PC is in keeping with the Aquarian times we now live in. PC first demanded the right to criticise conventional standards. Then it put forward new standards or eschewed standards altogether. Lastly, it installed replacement standards which it then protected, by denying the right to debate and criticise. This is what George Orwell called ‘Doublethink’. First, it presented itself as a Liberal advocate of ‘free speech’, demanding the right to be heard. Nowadays, it is an illiberal movement that censors conservative voices and anyone who defends traditional mores.
The redefinition of words has been the means by which PC has attained its power in culture, politics, law and history. Words have been weaponised to destroy society and civilisation from within. In effect, debate has been drowned out by changing the meaning of words we all used to agree on. Nowadays, it is more important for some that their definitions are accepted than it is for them to self-reflect on whether there is any consistency and common sense in the standards they hold. For instance, Michael Knowles quotes from Feminist and Trans ideologies which frequently are based on opposing mantras.
The book concludes with a plea that conservatives wake up to the real challenges they face in standing up to the insidious culture of PC and its modern formulation of Woke ideology. It is the weakness in standing up for traditional values that has allowed the Left to infiltrate and impose itself in the culture wars.

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Adam G

Important book, well put together

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 25, 2021

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It's time everyone wake up to the twisting of reality we are in the binds of, brought about by the manipulation of language and speech. Knowles provides insight into how the left has accomplished this by overtaking our institutions and infiltrating the culture. He not only maps out how we got here, but prescribes a way forward. Not to mention Michael is one of the brightest, clearest and most fearless minds we have who is shining a light exactly where it's needed.

The book itself is weighty and attractive looking, very well designed. All in all, this read left me Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, uhhhh. Not that again.... Just buy it and read it. Michael's books are even better with words.

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mel

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 7, 2021

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Really great read. Knowles presents his case brilliantly and succinctly lays out the left’s end goals.

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Max

Books amazing. Issues with delivery though

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 29, 2021

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The books ace.
However it came with the outer cover damaged.
Where it was put in the envelope the pucker had caught the cover into the cardboard unfortunately damaging my product.

robert

makes sense of what has been hard to define

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 11, 2021

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Michael brilliantly takes apart what is causing our current cultural/political malaise. This is not an easy task and this is not an "easy" read. His intellect shines through. There is a lot of take in, going back decades, but things start making sense. Everything is footnoted and verifiable.

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