Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead.

In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean s, Canada s biggest-selling newsweekly, for running an excerpt from Steyn s bestselling book America Alone, plus other flagrantly Islamophobic columns by the author. A year later the CIC had lost all its cases and Steyn had become a poster boy for a worldwide phenomenon - the collision between Islam, on the one hand, and, on the other, western notions of free speech, liberty and pluralism.

In this book, Steyn republishes all the essays the western world's new thought police attempted to criminalize, along with new material responding to his accusers. Covering other crises from the Danish cartoons to the Salman Rushdie fatwa, he also takes a stand against the erosion of free speech, and the advance of a creeping totalitarian "multiculturalism"; and he considers the broader relationship between Islam and the west in a time of unprecedented demographic transformation.

从美国到欧洲再到澳大利亚，《熄灯》对复兴的伊斯兰教和心灰意冷的西方之间的紧张关系以及未来几年对自由的影响进行了尖锐的探讨。

2007年，加拿大伊斯兰教大会对加拿大最畅销的新闻周刊《麦克林报》提起了三起诉讼，因为该报刊登了斯泰因的畅销书《美国孤独》的节选，以及该作者的其他公然仇视伊斯兰的专栏。一年后，CIC输掉了所有的案子，斯泰恩成为一种世界性现象的代言人--一方面是伊斯兰教，另一方面是西方的自由言论、自由和多元化概念之间的碰撞。

在这本书中，斯泰因重新发表了西方世界的新思想警察试图将其定罪的所有文章，以及回应其指控者的新材料。本书涵盖了从丹麦漫画到萨尔曼-拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）法特瓦的其他危机，他还表明了反对侵蚀言论自由和推进极权主义的 "多元文化 "的立场；他还考虑了在一个前所未有的人口结构转型时期伊斯兰教与西方之间更广泛的关系问题。