"I should be the freest person in America a 60-year-old white man with tenure at a university. Nobody can touch me,"
"But actually, that's not true anymore. So all of the things that we once knew and took for granted have been destabilized."
"Now words are being examined and created and evaluated in a way I don't think I've ever experienced,"
"The university decided they didn't want to fund our podcast anymore, which gives you an idea of the way in which things slowly close around you,"
Three fellows of the American Academy in Berlin — Jamaica Kincaid, Elizabeth Kolbert and William Hitchcock — expressed growing concern about freedom in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidential term. A high-profile temporary suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after a joke intensified worries about censorship and public backlash. William Hitchcock described increased self-censorship and institutional retrenchment when his podcast was not renewed. He said familiar norms have been destabilized and that people now examine and evaluate words in new, constraining ways. Elizabeth Kolbert said journalists and news organizations are very worried, and many feel on edge.
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