“Writing freely is an act of supreme bravery. Writers, thinkers and dissenters are not a luxury goods of concern only to elites. Writers are the coalminers of new perspectives, the safecrackers who can unlock an elusive empathy for those unlike us, and the town criers who force us to see what we would rather deny. Free expression is not something we can take for granted, and must be at the heart of our battle to defend democracy against its enemies” (Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, writing in the Guardian today)…
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