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Hail to the Skeptics
Every dissident group has their bards and fight songs. Here's a new one on me.
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February 2024

To Body Fascists? We Are Erik Prince's Africa
An Open Letter to Jon Schwarz
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Jen Downey
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January 2024

Who's teaching people that intellectual freedom can exist inside internet moderation schemes?
"You'll know nothing, and be happy"
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The kid is covered in sharpie pen, and the dog is dead of an aspirin overdose, but we're going to ignore the babysitter and reserve all our…
Please, someone tell me why this makes sense.
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Jen Downey
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November 2023

We are being trained to perceive "X" as a "free speech" sanctuary. It is not.
Narrative is trumping reality. Again.
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Jen Downey
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April 2023

Dear Arts Organizations: Now Is the Time to Take Discrimination Off the Table as a Defense Tactic.
No matter the kind of perceived danger.
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March 2023

Our Minds Were the Territory.
.Influence Over Our Perceptions Was the Prize.
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February 2023

In the summer of 2019, I wrote a parody of Henry V. It featured Adam Schiff as a royal looking to conquer perception territory via social…
It co-starred Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest executives as the less-than-principled French princes who let him have his way.
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Jen Downey

December 2022

Is Reading a Banned Book an Act of Intellectual Bravery?
It all depends on what you already assume about the book
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Yes, Kids Can Understand How Free Speech and Censorship Work
Let's have the conversations!
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Jen Downey
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November 2022

"Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics"
(A paper)
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Jen Downey
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July 2022

When the establishment says: "How could we have known imposing NPIs would cause damage?"--Check your archives.
I recently went to cancel my plan on a small writing platform I’d experimented with in 2020, and then abandoned. Sifting through the orphans there, I…
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