In 2019, some Chinese viewers relaxing at home may have been surprised upon turning on their televisions. The ears of some of the men on...

In the past year, a wave of intense debate surrounding the censorship of public school curricula has swept the nation, impacting students...

2020 has been a tumultuous year. Even without considering COVID-19, the internal strife within the United States is at its explosive...

For years, conservatives in America have railed against Big Tech companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube, for using...

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For the overwhelming majority of banned books, it takes only the vaguest understanding of their premises to guess why they were banned....

The documentary has always been the global community’s preferred medium of political exposé. Even devotees to the masterworks of...

Of the many canons in global literary history, specific attention has always been paid to banned and censored books. The reason for this...

Since October of last year, all five boroughs of NYC have been taken-over with more than 300 works by beloved Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in...

Exactly a century ago, in 1917, myriad forces in Russia conspired to topple the Czar, overthrowing an autocratic system of government...

Reaching into uncharted political waters, Google recently prototyped a program designed to direct potential ISIL recruits away from the...

Professor Jonathan Kirshner is a Professor of International Political Economy at Cornell University. His research focuses on classical...

With $40.9 million in ticket sales on its first day, the Chinese film “The Mermaid” broke global box office records in February of this...

Last month, President Xi Jinping of China took a choreographed tour of the country’s largest media organizations, and, with the...

Earlier this month, International Women’s Day created a platform for activism and protests around the world. In Beijing, however, hopes...

In Cuba, it costs $4.50 for one hour’s worth of Internet access at a speed two times slower than the rest of the world. Only five percent...

Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system —...

Nine days after the publication of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in 1988, India banned the importation and sale of the book. Four...

Turkish citizens today have not-so-distant memories of government officials and police breaking into their homes, looking under beds and...