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To fight ‘hate speech,’ stop talking about it
We should forever fight the phenomenon of hateful speech in its many forms, but it's time to retire the term "hate speech." Its meaning is inexact, elastic, and often… More
JK Rowling defends Donald Trump’s right to be ‘offensive and bigoted’
JK Rowling has said that while she finds almost everything that Donald Trump says “objectionable”, he still has her full support to come to the UK and “be offensive… More
Children’s Literature and the Censorship Conversation: Dialogues on Challenged Books
It’s a topic of discussion that has increasingly been at the forefront of the publishing industry and beyond. More
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
"If everyone in the world ate as much meat as Americans do (176 pounds per person per year), we’d need to find another planet to raise the feed and… More
The Bride Wore Green: What a Wedding Says about Iran’s Future
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a reformist and one of Iran’s former prime ministers, has been under house arrest since 2011 for his role in the Green Movement protests that challenged the… More
PEN America Condemns Travel Ban on Chinese Author Yang Jisheng
China’s refusal to allow renowned author and journalist Yang Jisheng to travel to the United States to accept an award for his work is a blatant and futile effort… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed. Februray 17
Israel briefly detains two Washington Post journalists, second sedition arrest in India as former lecturer is held, Apple opposes order to help unlock California shooter's phone. More
Remembering the Russian Writers on PEN’s Case List
As we wrap up an informative week with our visiting delegation of writers from Russia, the Russian writers who remain on PEN's case list serve as a sobering reminder… More
The PEN Ten with Janet Peery
I would caution us to refrain from spending too much time in articulating [writers'] collective purpose for fear of leaching the blood out of the “uncontrollable mystery on the… More
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