Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen weighs the costs of speaking against injustice | Arts and Culture News

In May 2021, for instance, a 22-year-old Associated Press staffer, Emily Wilder, was fired after right-wing media resurfaced pro-Palestinian statements she made while in college.

More recently, in March, the administration of President Donald Trump detained Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student studying at Tufts University, and stripped her of her visa.

Her supporters say she did little more than co-write an op-ed critical of the university’s refusal to “acknowledge the Palestinian…