For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America, something more like Brave New World than 1984. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are increasingly seen as a threat to "safety". Progressives marginalize conservative, traditional Christians, and other dissenters. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents —clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe— who offer practical advice on how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time.

Dreher argues that we have to fight for truth, living not by lies. And we can only do this keeping family strong and living our true faith, with Cross and suffer, not a soft Christian faith. Highly recommended for young people who want to understand our modern world and its ideas.