Cancel Culture

The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process

Alan Dershowitz

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Sky Pony Press
25 January 2021

Media studies; Ethical issues: censorship; Political ideologies; Political structure & processes; Political control & freedoms

In Cancel Culture, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals and institutions at the ever-changing whims of social media-driven crowds.

Alan Dershowitz has been called ""one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America"" by Politico and ""the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights"" by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed ""shoeontheotherfoot test,"" to those who have been ""cancelled"" for any number of faults, both real and imagined.

Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture-the rush to judgment and the devastating results it can have on those who may be innocent, the power of social media to effect punishment without a thorough examination of evidence, the idea that historical events can be viewed through the same lens as actions in the present day-he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in or concerned about cancel culture, its effects on our society, and its significance in a greater historical and political context.

By: Alan Dershowitz
Imprint: Sky Pony Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9781510764903
ISBN 10: 1510764909
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 25 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Dershowitz is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history, where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. The author of numerous bestselling books, fromChutzpahtoGuilt by AccusationtoThe Case Against Impeaching TrumptoThe Best DefensetoReversal of Fortune(which was made into an Academy Awardwinning film) toDefending Israel, Dershowitz has advised presidents and prime ministers and has represented many prominent men and women, half of them pro bono.

Reviews for Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process

PRAISE FOR ALAN DERSHOWITZ Alan Dershowitz speaks with great passion and personal courage. --Eli Wiesel Alan Dershowitz is a living profile in courage. --Steve Forbes Over [his] storied career, Dershowitz has remained more or less unchanged: loud, provocative, brilliant and principled. --Politico The fearless, peerless Alan Dershowitz. --Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi, Great Britain The truth has no greater defender than Alan Dershowitz. --Benjamin Netanyahu There are great legal minds; there are those who can also communicate well on television; then there is Dershowitz. The professor is uniquely capable of arguing a position, while putting a premium on legal and ethical legitimacy, not its popularity. Bravo, Dershowitz! --Chris Cuomo, Anchor and Reporter, Cnn Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book. --Truman Capote Love him or hate him, Dershowitz has lived a life that matters, hugely and enduringly. He is a man in full at a time when most of us aspire to be little more than a presence on Twitter. --New York Times Book Review Courage and principle are rare today. Professor Dershowitz has them both. --Senator Ted Cruz