Banned Books Week just ended, but the fight it highlights continues every other week of the year. This year's theme was Censorship is So 1984: Read for Your Rights, invoking George Orwell's famous ...

What happens when a movie camera becomes a Molotov cocktail? Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director, found out in 2000. His film The Circle didn’t just critique oppression—it burned the playbook for state ...