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PEN America Authors’ Evening With Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm ET
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The PEN Pod: On The University of Austin, Myanmar, and China

InterviewNovember 19, 2021

“We’re extremely happy for Danny Fenster. . . but I think the real question is, do we see any loosening vis-à-vis the free expression of Myanmar’s own reporters and… More

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The PEN Pod: Navigating the Debacle in Afghanistan with Ayad Akhtar and George Packer

InterviewAugust 20, 2021

“Everyone who essentially used the opportunity of the last two decades to try to build a decent, better society for themselves and for Afghanistan are now under threat.” More

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Letter: White House Must Establish Disinformation Defense and Free Expression Task Force

Open LetterApril 29, 2021

A coalition of groups led by PEN America is asking the Biden-Harris administration to establish a federal interagency Disinformation Defense and Free Expression Task Force. More

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The PEN Pod: The Right to Protest and Vaccine Hesitancy with Suzanne Nossel

InterviewMarch 19, 2021

“The introduction of this sweeping anti-protest legislation that restricts where you can protest. . . really runs counter to freedom of assembly rights.” More

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The PEN Pod: Reckoning and Reconciliation after the Trump Era with Suzanne Nossel

InterviewJanuary 22, 2021

“What we’re confronting on, for example, issues of race is the lingering pain and trauma that persists when there isn’t a full reckoning.” More

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[VIRTUAL] Renewing Democracy: How Free Speech Advocates Work with New Administrations

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm ET
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The PEN Pod: On Leaving Trump Behind and Free Speech Among the Young with Suzanne Nossel

InterviewDecember 18, 2020

“Whatever [Trump’s] latest antics are, they’re outrageous. His legal claims, his protestations, his tweets—that seems to suck up all the air from a new administration.” More

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The PEN Pod: On the Virtual Gala and the Beauty of Human Rights Work with Suzanne Nossel

InterviewDecember 11, 2020

“There’s something about individual cases of dissidents—these are human stories, faces, and individuals with families and life trajectories. When you can help them, it’s so concrete.” More

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The PEN Pod: On Trump’s Continuing Fraud Claims and COVID Vaccine with Suzanne Nossel

InterviewDecember 4, 2020

“I think the question of the media’s role in helping usher Trump offstage is a really important one. . . it’s important that the media begin to shift focus… More

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Nadine Farid Johnson testified before a congressional subcommittee... PEN America and its partners hosted a #LetFloridaRead event... CEO @SuzanneNossel and Ted Mitchell, CEO of the @ACEducation wrote an op-ed in defense of academic freedom... and more: https://pen.org/pen-america-news/

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As @JoyVBehar points out, Americans' knowledge of the Holocaust is declining even as the movement to ban books—including #Holocaust-themed works such as @jodipicoult's The Storyteller—is accelerating.

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Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php

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