Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the West
2026-07-15 · 12 min · 7 entities
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In 2008, artist and activist Ai Weiwei clashed with the Chinese government over its response to the deadly Sichuan earthquake. The government had censored information about the death toll, so Ai Weiwei launched a citizen’s investigation, knocking on doors and visiting villages to learn the names of the thousands of children who died. More recently, the artist has also become critical of political censorship in the United States. In today’s episode, he joins Here & Now ’s Scott Tong for a conversation about his new book On Censorship , a critique of censorship under both democratic and authoritarian governments.
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