James Tager

Research Director at @PENAmerica. Adjunct instructor at @NYUSPS. Find me over on Bluesky at

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@jh_swanson Just found and followed you there!

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@lee_kovarsky Just found and followed you there!

[Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung]

Faculty are not "better" than other state employees. But they are different. They are hired for their ideas, not to reflect the views of the state. Ban them from expressing those ideas, and you no longer have a university; you have a propaganda factory. https://t.co/DdM8eZeGOh

[James Tager @JRTtager]

In shock to learn of Alvin Cheung's death. We worked together on a human rights report in 2016 and kept in touch after. He was brilliant, thoughtful, and had an unerring moral compass--a role model for all scholars who want their work to make a difference in this world.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Alvin Cheung, a scholar and former Hong Kong barrister who for many years warned of the threat China's encroachment posed to the city, died on July 29 in Canada.

File photo: Arbor Memorial.

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@Pip_Gladwin @Victoriocity Very excited!

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@Victoriocity @chrssgdn @LaylaKatib @atomcrowley @mrpeterae @Pip_Gladwin @PyperPypez @jmdhox @LizxCampbell Yes! Let's do this!

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@AkiNikolaidis Just discovered this site, and it is blowing my mind.

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@whstancil Well put.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Is it at all up for debate that the Senate has by now spent more time discussing its dress code than the spike in child poverty in 2022

[James Tager @JRTtager]

For those interested in the subject, I also highly recommend reading Prof. Duncan Kennedy's "Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy" which can be found here: https://t.co/8b8k2VoAkI

[James Tager @JRTtager]

One of my favorite professors during my own law school experience--the incomparable @TheSituationist--breaks down the problem with the prevailing advice that people give law students.

[James Tager @JRTtager]

One of my favorite professors during my own law school experience--the incomparable @TheSituationist--breaks down the problem with the prevailing advice that people give law students.

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@davidgross_man @TheGloryFires Will take a listen!

[PEN America @PENamerica]

PEN America: Christopher Rufo "is clearly determined to import European authoritarianism to New College, trampling faculty members’ and students’ right to intellectual freedom. That his fellow board members would support him in doing so is a scandal.”

➡️ https://t.co/3p1nso4Yom

[James Tager @JRTtager]

@realEvan69 @ZaidJilani I'm reading this book now: One Person, No Vote. It's a great explainer of many of these barriers--which have been deliberately constructed. Definitely recommend. But beware: it's a tough subject to read on https://t.co/IbbRsqNL2j

[James Tager @JRTtager]

This looks like a great panel--particularly glad to see @veronikellymars as the moderator as she has been insightfully reporting on the 'book ban beat' for years. Whenever a new article from Jensen drops, it's a must-read for book access advocates #freadom

[Kathy Sandler @ksandler1]

LAST CHANCE! Attn. Book Lovers: Are you angry about #bookbans? Join us TODAY at noon ET to learn what you can do about it! Register ASAP, and please help us spread the word! https://t.co/iimedFSew7

[James Tager @JRTtager]

Excellent primer from my brilliant colleague @jonfreadom on the various semantic tactics book banners use to deny that they are banning books--and why they're wrong. #freedomtoread

[Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom]

If people don’t want to be known as book banners, there’s a simple solution: Stop trying to ban books.

My latest on book bans, and the effort to ban @TheAmandaGorman @OhReallyRio and @PoetTonyMedina in Miami-Dade, for @USATODAY: https://t.co/HLx4Eh4dAm

[PEN America @PENamerica]

🧵A K-8 school in Miami-Dade County recently removed @theamandagorman's The Hill We Climb from elementary school library shelves. They say it’s not been banned, but…

[PEN America @PENamerica]

A Florida School Has Banned the Poem Read at Biden’s Inauguration

Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb is restricted after just one parent complained about it.

https://t.co/AMLRSaUSOA #BannedBooks #IStandWithTheBanned

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’ll be fascinating to hear Musk, the free speech absolutist, grill DeSantis on the latter’s well-documented crackdowns in Florida on free speech, the free press, and books in their Twitter Spaces conversation.

He’ll grill DeSantis on free speech, right?

Right?

Ri…

[BitterWinterMagazine @BitterWinterMag]

#China Kidnaps Southern Mongolian Dissident in #Mongolia https://t.co/fjOgogRbXy Chinese police took writer #LhamjabBorjigin from his residence in #Ulaanbaatar and deported him back to China. #buddhism #religiousfreedom