What are some of the initiatives you’ve been most involved with at PEN? In 2016, where I came from, in Milwaukee and the surrounding suburbs, I couldn’t find a single Clinton-Kaine sign anywhere. A lot of folks I grew up with — good folks, smart folks — had a very different idea of what was going on. And with PEN, that means something like internal disagreement about issues surrounding censorship and so-called cancel culture. It doesn’t mean everyone’s in complete agreement, but that we all think there’s something worth saying and that we can all basically agree on it.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 12:56 UTC