How Conservatives Criminalize Speech

Emma Goldman's 1919 deportation hearing teaches us to pay attention to censorship embedded in other laws

Today’s offering is an edited talk I gave on May 18, 2022, at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. The panel was part of an NEH-funded PEN America series about free speech called “Flashpoints: Free Speech in American History, Culture & Society.” You can read more about the series and events near you here.

My assignment? Reflect on what anarchist femi…