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Its founders envisaged it as a bastion of free thought.
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Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
Their efforts represent a kind of censorship that violates not only the right to free expression, but also the innermost sanctum of free thought.
—Elyssa Koren, National Review, 5 Dec. 2022
The death of free time, certainly, but not of free thought.
—Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022
For his fans and friends, the fact that Rushdie was attacked in such a quiet place dedicated to the art of writing and free thought is certainly reason for pause.
—CBS News, 14 Aug. 2022
That's because everything Xi has implemented at home has been to stifle free thought, not unleash it.
—Ian Johnson, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
The Biden administration is governing from the far-left, ignoring the problems of working-class Americans while pushing an agenda that stifles free speech, free thought, and economic freedom.
—Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
The dissident movement that took the Red Square demonstrators as an inspiration, though never large in numbers, was a powerful generator of free thought and possibility.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
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Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
Their efforts represent a kind of censorship that violates not only the right to free expression, but also the innermost sanctum of free thought.
—Elyssa Koren, National Review, 5 Dec. 2022
The death of free time, certainly, but not of free thought.
—Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022
For his fans and friends, the fact that Rushdie was attacked in such a quiet place dedicated to the art of writing and free thought is certainly reason for pause.
—CBS News, 14 Aug. 2022
That's because everything Xi has implemented at home has been to stifle free thought, not unleash it.
—Ian Johnson, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
The Biden administration is governing from the far-left, ignoring the problems of working-class Americans while pushing an agenda that stifles free speech, free thought, and economic freedom.
—Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
The dissident movement that took the Red Square demonstrators as an inspiration, though never large in numbers, was a powerful generator of free thought and possibility.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
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“Free thought.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20thought. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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