Sally Rooney Is Wrong, and So Is What’s Happening to Her
You don’t have to agree with the author and activist to see that Britain’s suppression of speech is a problem.
George Packer
George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (a winner of the 2013 National Book Award); Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (the winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal; and, most recently, The Emergency, a novel. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 15 years. He writes about American politics and culture and U.S. foreign policy.
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