[okintheory]

It's right there, in the press release:

>>> Jonathan Friedman, Sy Syms director of PEN America’s U.S. Free Expression programs, said:

“The irony cannot be lost here: government officials have used their positions to muscle out a scholar of authoritarianism from a prestigious lecture," <<<

[adolph]

Did Friedman utter those words to any member of Congress? Was he at a podium in an empty room at midnight?