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CATEGORY: Magazine
Why I worry about India’s media
India’s prime minister seeks to create an unquestioning press, writes John Lloyd
How fact and fiction come together in the age of unreason
Using fiction and stories to influence society is nothing new, but facts are needed to drive the most powerful campaigns, argues Rachael Jolley
The Age of Unreason: Index on Censorship autumn magazine launch
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Contents: The Age of Unreason
The autumn 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine looks at the ways in which we might be turning away from facts and science across the globe.
Podcast: The Age of Unreason
Are facts under attack? We explore this question in the Autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine.
The age of unreason
The autumn 2018 Index on Censorship magazine asks whether we are turning away from facts, reason and science in favour of emotions. TV presenter Evan Davis speaks about why we are willing to believe lies, while philosopher Julian Baggini outlines the difficulties of sharing a viewpoint that is not popular. Meanwhile, Timandra Harkness illustrates how you can have an argument. We also have articles from Kaya Genç in Turkey exploring the current attack on science in the education system, from Stephen Woodman in Mexico on the rise of documentaries as an antidote to a biased media and from Dan Nolan in Hungary on increasing government interference in the arts and now sciences. Outside the special report, don’t miss Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein writing about the Tanzanian government’s attempt to muzzle bloggers through introducing fees that are more than most people’s salaries, and Nobel Prize-winning novelist and poet Herta Müller on being threatened by the secret police in Romania.
一段不应忘却的历史
中国政府最近新通过一项法律，该项法律将惩罚官方认为错误的历史叙述。林慕莲 为《失忆人民共和国—重返天安门》一书作者，她认为在当下的中国她将无法完成此书的写作。
Index on Censorship magazine wins APEX award
Index on Censorship is honoured to announce that our magazine has won an ‘Award of Excellence’ in the ‘Magazines, Journals & Tabloids – Writing (entire issue)’ category for the Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX).
Playlist: Trouble in Paradise
A holiday-themed playlist to accompany the summer issue of Index on Censorship, which looks at trouble in paradise
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.