We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Despots, it turns out, are learning to practice what journalist Rebecca MacKinnon calls “networked authoritarianism”—the use of the Internet to consolidate power.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image