RealClearPublicAffair’s Censorship Page is designed to be an online venue where conversations on these critical issues can take place. This page promotes, distributes, and archives the work of leading journalists and thinkers who take the growing issue of censorship as their core concern.
What began as localized skirmishes in the “culture wars” has expanded its reach with startling speed. Journalists and editorial boards self-censoring for fear of political — or financial — reprisal. University administrators invoking speech codes to shield students from “harm,” i.e. ideas they found uncomfortable. Faculty members capitulating to dominant campus orthodoxies. Students themselves revealing they are afraid to speak their own minds. College newspapers, which once crusaded against such proscriptions, going along for the ride.
The contagion of censorship was never going to be contained to the academy and it hasn’t been. Social media, with complicity of the legacy media, disseminated the seeds of conformity far and wide. The federal government has entered the fray —on the wrong side.
Essential Reading
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The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
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Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.
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The defense of free speech by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, Germany, has led to open panic on the left in fighting to maintain European censorship and speech criminalization.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Meta not only censored our posts – many having to do with topics that the so-called medical “experts” like Dr. Anthony Fauci were dead wrong about – but outright kicked us off the platform without warning.
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Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health.
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Trump’s nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to head NIH is a major victory for science and academic freedom.
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When magazine's like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.
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The President-elect has a historic opportunity to combat censorship by federal bureaucrats.
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Return the responsibility where it belongs — to federal lawmakers, as well as to the state and local elected officials closer to the people.
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Both right and left in American partake of the free-for-all of duplicity.
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