Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

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

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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

If you just look at this period in history - going back to the persecution of Copernicus and Galileo - you find that most great thinkers were punished for spreading ideas that centralized authorities deemed "false." And yet, people today want to replicate this model in law. https://t.co/YVQEQvXXIM — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2023