#Harpers

Shannon Vallor

ShannonVallor

This is just embarrassing. If you read it and thought ‘yes, how could anyone disagree?,’ please look again: “The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure...” We KNOW this

Kyla Wazana Tompkins

kwazana

Calls for civility, "openness" and "freedom" by people who institute and enact structural violence on the regular, but feel like their freedoms are eroded when they are challenged, can bite

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

"Whatever the arguments around each particular incident" carries a lot of freight here. If the signatories don't agree about the specific cases under consideration, how can they make a shared

Gad Saad

GadSaad

I just finished reading the @Harpers which @sapinker had kindly emailed me yesterday. First, the old adage better late than never is operative here. That said, as I have repeatedly

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

When a new president is sworn in, they gets told a lot of secret stuff - launch codes, backup plans, etc. But one of the best-kept presidential secrets is the

Jonathan Senchyne

jsench

It sure would show some intellectual consistency if the high profile signatories of the Harpers letter took the driver’s seat in defending their very junior colleagues like @KempoJesse when they

Ron Rabatsky

ExposingALEC

There is a rumor out there that tRump will blame the #coronavirus debacle on Pence, then announce - on the day of the #DemocraticParty nomination - that Nikki Haley will

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

Folks are confused by my reaction to this letter so I thought I‘d clarify. The issue I am having is this: we need courageous institutional leadership. And for that to

Roya Hakakian

RoyaTheWriter

1) I’m a proud signatory of #theLetter published in #Harpers, calling for justice and open debate. Some have dismissed it as a statement by a “privileged” few. The term privileged

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

Maybe we're actually in the midst of huge cultural shifts and individuals are fighting bigoted power structures through the most liberal of practices: free speech.https://twitter.com/Harpers/status/1280495875165425670 To be clear, I thi

Jack

jackeselbst

I've no trouble believing they sincerely worry that "This stifling atmosphere [of professional consequences for their friends and colleagues] will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time". That

Aaron Ross Coleman

arcwrites

So I recently started a new job as a politics reporter at Vox! (peep my recent clips!) Very excited about it, and I reckoned this is an opportune time to

David Loy

DavidLoySD

I defend freedom of speech for a living. I respect many signatories of this letter, but I think it's misguided in several important ways. /1https://twitter.com/Harpers/status/1280721522454171649 The First Amendment prohibits government

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

That letter in Harper’s: Instructive to see this during a Black-led revolution against systemic racism and brutality in all institutions - not just the police.At a time when voices long

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

https://twitter.com/harpers/status/1280495875165425670 This is what I have to say about the Harper’s thing. https://twitter.com/juliusgoat/status/1167053951860191233?s=21 https://twitter.com/juliusgoat/status/1167053951860191233 There is

Timothy Garton Ash

fromTGA

1. The #Harpersletter on free speech is excellent: carefully worded, thoughtful, important. I would wholly subscribe to it. One point where we should dig deeper, though, is the extent to