No Apologies

How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage—Lessons for the Silenced Majority

By: Katherine Brodsky

Narrated by: Katherine Brodsky

We as a society are self-censoring at record rates. Say the wrong thing at the wrong moment to the wrong person and the consequences can be dire. Think that everyone should be treated equally regardless of race? You're a racist who needs to be kicked out of the online forum that you started. Believe there are biological differences between men and women? You're a sexist who should be fired with cause. Argue that people should be able to speak freely within the bounds of the law?

You're a fascist who should be removed from your position of authority. When the truth is no defense and nuance is seen as an attack, self-censorship is a rational choice. Yet, our silence comes with a price. When we are too fearful to speak openly and honestly, we deprive ourselves of the ability to build genuine relationships, we yield all cultural and political power to those with opposing views, and we lose our ability to challenge ideas or change minds, even our own.

In No Apologies, Katherine Brodsky argues that it's time for principled individuals to hit the unmute button and resist the authoritarians among us who name, shame, and punish. Recognizing that speaking authentically is easier said than done, she spent two years researching and interviewing those who have been subjected to public harassment and abuse for daring to transgress the new orthodoxy or criticize a new taboo.

While she found that some of these individuals navigated the outrage mob better than others, and some suffered worse personal and professional effects than others, all of the individuals with whom she spoke remain unapologetic over their choice to express themselves authentically. In sharing their stories, which span the arts, education, journalism, and science, Brodsky uncovers lessons for all of us in the silenced majority to push back against the dangerous illiberalism of the vocal minority that tolerates no dissent— and to find and free our own voices.

©2024 Katherine Brodsky (P)2024 Pitchstone Publishing

Well written and revealing

Amazing selection of human experiences and scary path western countries and cultures are taking towards totalitarianism.

Pretty good

Good subject, but the incessant quote, end quotes were quite distracting. Could have made a drinking game out of it.

No Apologies...For using the word "quote"

I really wanted to like this book maybe a paper version would read better but the book mainly consists of the author saying the words quote and unquote 6,000 times. By The time I got to chapter 8 I flinched every time I heard it I had to shut it off and move on.