The PEN Pod: On Belarus, Hong Kong, and Free Speech Rights for Students
“We’ve come to recognize how vitally important it is to educated young people on free speech rights, and that isn’t being systematically done.” More
Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History
PEN America joins higher education groups in opposing legislation that seeks to ban discussions of racism and related issues in American history in schools. More
Idaho Bill Attacking Critical Race Theory is Affront to Academic Freedom
This bill claims to defend intellectual honesty, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of speech. In reality, it tramples on them. More
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Our friends at @PENamerica are hosting a PEN Out Loud conversation tonight, Oct. 26 at 8:00 PM Eastern. New York Times Book Review editor @PamelaPaulNYT will be in conversation with author @laurenoyler:
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"The CCP sees its continued reign as dependent not only on its long-standing practice of severely restricting speech inside China but also on dictating global narratives about China." Read PEN America CEO @SuzanneNossel's latest piece in @ForeignPolicy: https://bit.ly/3Bl6IX0.
