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  • The New Puritans

  • How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
  • By: Andrew Doyle
  • Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
  • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (103 ratings)

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Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary exploration of our current cultural climate and an urgent appeal to return to a truly liberal society.

The puritans of the seventeenth century sought to refashion society in accordance with their own beliefs, but they were deep thinkers who were aware of their own fallibility. Today, in the grasp of the new puritans, we see a very different story.

Leading a cultural revolution driven by identity politics and so-called 'social justice', the new puritanism movement is best understood as a religion - one that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. Its disciples even have their own language, rituals and a determination to root out sinners through what has become known as 'cancel culture'.

In The New Puritans, Andrew Doyle powerfully examines the underlying belief-systems of this ideology, and how it has risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural and corporate institutions. He reasons that, to move forward, we need to understand where these new puritans came from and what they hope to achieve. Written in the spirit of optimism and understanding, Doyle offers an eloquent and powerful case for the reinstatement of liberal values and explains why it's important we act now.

©2022 Andrew Doyle (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

Critic Reviews

'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday Times

'Andrew Doyle has written a masterful broadside against the woke that will also discomfit the anti-woke, proposing to both the radical notion that rather than being identities, we embrace our status as individuals' Critic

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Excellent and necessary at this moment.

More conversations, less yelling accusations and ignoring the tantrums in favour of a more adult reaction sound like the only solutions for the conundrum we find ourselves in. Humor helps too. So thank you Andrew Doyle for an amazing analysis of the situation.

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Thoughtful criticism of the issues

I’m buying the book following listening to it read. Good narration, and now I need to read, mark and digest further.

If Andrew is said to be right wing his arguments haven’t been read, and he addresses important issues in a peaceable way.

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A great discussion of what our modern society has become

A wonderfully intelligent look at how civil discourse in modern society has degenerated into a possessed, egotistical group think that serves to destroy rather than create.

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A must read in the current era

The thing I appreciate must about this book is the author’s focus on engaging with respect and humility. It makes the case well that we need to standup against divisive bullies and defend inclusiveness.

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Excellent dissertation

Complete thorough and entertaining. A great journey into wokism of the current age. Essential reading for the sceptical amongst us and those struggling with the cultural environment that we are now living in.

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Absolutely salient

In 2020 the world went absolutely insane. Facebook decided to ban people and threaten them with banishment for merely pointing out the obvious to insane, hate fueled ideologues. The same was happening all over the internet on sites like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. These giants of the internet were taking a side, and it was a crazed authoritarian cult they had chosen to back.

It is a strange world where these sites have become redundant. Where in the past these sites had people addicted, scrolling through what was becoming more and more irrelevant to our immediate circle or our own social or ethical reality. These giants assumed to own the minds of the public and they believed that they could now dictate reality to us, dispite the fact that we were able to see the true reality in real time.

Facts are all that matters, and objective reality matters. Refusal to let us see what is happening in the world by scrubbing the internet of video evidence, and removing the dislike button will fail. We can determine what is false, and we can determine what is propaganda.

This book is refreshing, because it allows us to see that we are not alone in our indignation. That when we walk outside and see the flags of some authoritarian cult being flown in the streets by a council that more and more resembles a dictator, we understand that everyone else around us is also rolling their eyes in the same way. That these displays are bringing about their end in time. To defeat a bad idea, it first needs to make itself a real threat.

It has the attention of some quite intelligent people with the power to articulate the tyrants actions and their absurdities.

This book is a must read to help understand the times we are living in. As this isn't just a small cult in Salem, but an ideology which is quickly making itself a global dictatorship, the likes of which we have never seen. If enough people say no to these puritanical bigots, they will lose their foothold, and hopefully become a brief footnote in the history books.

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Solid thinking

Salient, sound arguments that help make sense of the increasing nonsense. Can be a little wordy at times, but you can’t be critical of the actual content. Very good.

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Exceptionally good book.

At last a voice of common sense. I can honestly say I can now understand more about what is happening in the western world. Well thought out, well written and presented.

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Fabulous analysis

Biggest shame of this book, is that those that ought to read it won’t ever do so.

A terrifically analytical and references deconstruction of woke excess.

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Reasoned and respectful

I really enjoyed this book. It exceeded my expectations in that it is both academic and commonsensical, untangling the many conflations that riddle the social justice movement.
I hope to reread, there is a lot to contemplate.

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