DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

Google fires employee who wrote anonymous memo questioning the role of women in engineering; Scientists leak government report on climate change; Agriculture dept. employees stopped from using the term… More

DARE To Be Informed

Weekly round-up of pressing threats and notable goings-on in free expression in the United States and around the world. More

DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression

Access to White House press briefings continues to narrow, ED Suzanne Nossel on the necessary distinction between offensive speech and violence, and more in free expression from the U.S.… More

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Aicha Lemsine on Gender Censorship

The most bitter opposition to women writers occurs when they move out of marked gender categories of discourse and trespass in areas considered outside of their realm. More

2017 Literary Gala: Andrew Solomon

Literature has kept the idea of freedom alive in societies where freedom is forcibly annihilated. If the truth can remain vitalized, it can be shouted from the rooftops. More

The PEN Ten with Garth Greenwell

A diverse and democratic society depends upon robust protections of free speech. Those protections require our vigilant commitment. More