Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Spent the week outside the city with the kids and various dogs, reading this biography of Voltaire, the Enlightenment, and pre-Revolutionary France, and can't recommend it highly enough. So many of the debates we have now, and the authoritarianism we fight, have roots right here. https://t.co/6vuL9kSYWA — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That journalists are subject to a "hostile work environment" or "at risk" because their papers air ideas they dislike and disagree with is one of the most pathetic grievances invented in awhile, and comes mainly from journalists who never faced actual persecution for their work: — PolitiTweet.org

1/ I just spoke w/someone who was at a NYT townhall earlier today that Guild leadership presented as a chance for s… https://t.co/hIG7cdKS6p

Posted Feb. 22, 2023

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Suffice to say, Voltaire - in and out of the Bastille - had to write in a subversive and obscure way because, like most Enlightenment thinkers, he was viewed as purveying "False Ideas" by institutions that believed they had apprehended and should enforce Universal Truth. https://t.co/8Qb3f6lUUr — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023