At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage

By Carol Off

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage is a 2024 book by Carol Off, the award-winning Canadian journalist and longtime co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens, published by Random House Canada. Off examines six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years, freedom, democracy, truth, woke, choice and taxes, and shows how losing a shared political vocabulary leaves us unable to hear each other and prey to conspiracy theories and autocrats.

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• Margaret Atwood: “A Must-Read in our times.... you can't talk to people if words have been bleached of meaning.”