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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Americans tend to think of Canadians, when we think of them at all, as mild-mannered, agreeable, and nicer versions of ourselves. But over the last several years we have seen Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, crack down harshly on his fellow citizens. In January 2022, Trudeau froze bank accounts of people who had...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news By Alex Gutentag During the Dark Ages, Irish monks copied down all the books they could find. As libraries disappeared across Europe, Ireland’s monasteries preserved Western knowledge and literature. These monks eventually brought their transcribed manuscripts back to the rest of Europe and saved civilization from a peri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news It’s now clear that heads of state around the world, from the U.S. and Canada to Britain and New Zealand, are working together to censor their political opponents, lie to the public, and crack down on free speech — all in the name of fighting “disinformation,” “extremism,” and “hate.” A former Army intelligence officer n...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news When Michael testified before Congress two weeks ago with Matt Taibbi, many of his insights into the Censorship Industrial Complex were thanks to the exhaustive research of Mike Benz. Benz, a former State Department official, heads up the Foundation for Freedom Online . He’s a bona fide expert on the global digital censo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news At the height of the #MeToo movement and the online fever that accompanied it, then-novelist Stephen Elliott was shocked to find his name on a public Google spreadsheet in which anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct were being made of men who worked in the media industry. Next to his name was the career-ending word,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.public.news Welcome to our debut episode of Public’s new podcast. We can’t imagine a better first guest than Martin Gurri, author of Revolt of the Public, the book that inspired this publication’s name. We talk to Gurri about wokeness, totalitarianism, Cuba, and other subjects.