“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country”

The New Yorker
by Susan B. Glasser
February 12, 2026
Susan B. Glasser on the Tump Administration’s systematic campaign to stamp out dissent.
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Originally published on The New Yorker on 2/12/2026
“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country”