Sticks and Stones

The New Yorker

6/10/2025

Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing—all are part of an escalating war over words. What happens next?

Text: Louis Menand.

AD: Nicholas Bleachman.

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