Censorship
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Two Cheers for Viewpoint Diversity December 03, 2024
American institutions of higher learning, perhaps especially the most selective of them, are failing to help students become tolerant, reflective, and respectful of different viewpoints. Intolerance and dogmatism are common, resulting in censorship, ...
John Milton Foresaw Our Age of Chilling Censorship December 03, 2024
At a time when police knock on journalists’ doors, the radical poet remains relevant 350 years on....
How to Fight Tech Censorship October 16, 2024
The news that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign pressured X, formerly Twitter, to censor journalist Ken Klippenstein has reignited the controversy over tech censorship in terms that replicate, almost word for word, what transpired four years ago w...
Founders’ Notions of the Freedom of the Press October 14, 2024
Freedom of the press didn’t always exist. At only four hundred years old, it’s relatively new. Before then, official limits always determined what could and couldn’t be published. Sometimes there was harsh and exacting censorship, as in sixteenth-cen...
On Name-calling October 10, 2024
In his analysis of “Newspeak” in 1984, George Orwell called attention to the important issue of having the courage to call things by their right names. Newspeak was a Satanic mill designed to grind into dust the semantic links that tether us to reali...
Blue Walls Falling Down October 09, 2024
An Excerpt from Blue Walls Falling Down: A NovelStella Tęsknota was ready to marry Blake Yourrick, the troubled if earnest protagonist of Infinite Regress. In this stand-alone novel (and loose sequel), set after Blake abruptly—and inexplicably—breaks...
How to Fight Back Against the Censors October 02, 2024
I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.So what do all of us at Rescue the Republic have in common? Nothing!In a pre-Trump universe, chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Haml...
Censorship for Profit September 17, 2024
When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested by French authorities at the end of August, the move came as a shock. But among the few who could (or, at least, should) have seen the arrest coming is Durov himself. For months, European Union rhetoric ...
Does It Take a Government to Censor? August 19, 2024
Certain sorts of events, none of which directly involve government action, are what we often think of when contemporary notions of freedom of speech, political correctness, and cancel culture come up in conversation: A speaker is disinvited from a co...
How the Regime Captured Wikipedia August 06, 2024
In 2019, a scandal ripped through the Wikipedia community when a Wikipedia admin who goes by the handle Fram was handed a year-long ban from the site. While known to few outside the tight-knit but feverishly active collective of Wikipedia contributor...
End the Online Censorship Racket August 01, 2024
Few Americans have ever heard of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, let alone understand how it shapes what they read and hear in news and commentary. That may soon change.An alarming new report of the House Judiciary Committee details this o...
Censorship in the New Regime Is Corporate May 08, 2024
October 14, 2020. It’s one of the dates etched in my mind, alongside my wedding anniversary, my kids’ birthdays, and my reception into the Catholic Church. Unlike those happy occasions, however, October 14 is associated with a dark memory. It was the...
Tech’s #MeToo Architect: The Legacy of Ellen Pao May 01, 2024
A recent retrospective in First Things about former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, ousted a decade ago from the company he co-founded over outcry about his opposition to gay marriage, sparked a chain of mea culpas from bystanders to the industry’s years-l...
Pen America Has Surrendered Over Israel April 30, 2024
Another day, another opportunity for huffy, hypocritical “progressive” posturing. PEN America has now been forced to cancel its World Voices literary festival in New York and LA, on the heels of also cancelling its 2024 awards ceremony. Too many auth...
On Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma” April 23, 2024
Something is rotten in the state of contemporary literature. You can smell it from a mile off—in the Poetry Foundation’s censorship of a review that espoused anti-Zionist views; in the Frankfurt Book Fair rescinding the Palestinian writer Adania Shib...
NPR’s New CEO Hates Tech, Too April 18, 2024
This week, on the heels of a whistleblower piece published at the Free Press, Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, is under fire. Journalists and activists like Christopher Rufo have resurfaced her long history of making public, inflammatory stateme...
The Perils of Dissident Literature January 23, 2024
Nothing Sacred is an anthology of short stories published this month by Heresy Press, a new alternative imprint devoted to “outspoken voices in contemporary fiction”—those supposedly shut out by the mainstream publishing establishment for crossing va...
Beyond Tech's Vibe Shift January 05, 2024
All the news that’s fit to print. A few weeks back, at the end of 2023, the more reliably idiotic elements of our tech press published a torrent of eulogies for Twitter. The app was dead, the Twitter-addicted political activists once again tweeted on...
