FREE SPEECH and freedom of conscience possess long been primary American values. Yet a growing intolerance from the left side of the politics spectrum is threatening Americans’ capability to freely express beliefs without fear of retaliation. USA Today columnist and Fox Information contributor Kirsten Powers telephone calls it “The Silencing.”

Capabilities chronicles this forced march toward conformity within an exposé of the illiberal tactics deployed to turn off debate on a few of the most important problems of the day. While about The Silencing preaching tolerance and claiming to hold liberal ideals, the “illiberal left” functions to delegitimize political and ideological opponents with techniques that stifle freedom of expression, thought, and religious belief.

In The Silencing, Kirsten Power, herself a very pleased liberal-but from an even more tolerant Jeffersonian tradition-exposes the illiberal left. You’ll find out:

– So why the illiberal still left is becoming an Orwellian “your government,” policing what it deems appropriate speech and opinions

– The way the illiberal left is enthusiastic about delegitimizing Fox News

– How illiberal left pundits-even self-proclaimed “”feminists”” (and Capabilities names titles)-employ in outrageously misogynistic and sexist dismissals of their female opponents

– How illiberal colleges and universities limit independence of appearance to tightly regulated “free speech zones” and ban loudspeakers (also liberals) with whom the illiberal still left disagrees

– How “truth” matters little to the illiberal still left, for whom ideology is everything

How is it that liberalism, once associated with open-mindedness and cause, has turned into a automobile for irrational prejudice, ideological conformity, as well as the marginalization and punishment of alternative views? Kirsten Power chronicles this troubling tendency in perhaps the most important-and chilling-political audiobook of the entire year.