A Literary Activist’s Guide to the PEN America Digital Archive
I find archives strangely comforting…they are reminders of what’s recurred and changed, reminders that others were grappling similarly in the past and theirs are the shoulders we stand on. More
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Educational gag orders represent a serious threat to the very academic autonomy that has allowed for so much intellectual discovery at our institutions. Read the op-ed in @Newsweek by @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell and @PENamerica's @SuzanneNossel.
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