No journalist is more relentlessly iconoclastic than Glenn Greenwald, who shared a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Edward Snowden revelations.
The 53-year-old former lawyer never shrinks from fighting with the left.
Denouncing what he called "The pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality" that led him to be "Censored" by his own media outlet, Greenwald railed that "These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom."
Like a growing number of refugees from more-traditional news organizations, Greenwald took his talents to Substack.
He wasted no time lobbing grenades, posting stories and videos with titles like ".
Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald via Zoom at Greenwald's house in Brazil, where he lives with his husband, two children, and numerous dogs.
Among other topics, they discussed what Greenwald sees as a generational fight playing out in newsrooms, the challenge identity politics poses to free expression, and whether a coalition of libertarians and progressives can effectively push non-interventionist foreign policy, lifestyle liberation, and an end to corporate subsidies during the Biden presidency.
Saturday, November 28, 2020
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