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After the Fall
Although Ian Buruma was removed as the editor-in-chief of the New York Review of Books in September 2018 as a result of his decision to publish a controversial essay on #MeToo, he still has no reservations about speaking his mind. In fact, that, he tells Malin Ekman of Svenska Dagbladet, is the very essence of intellectual life.
NEW YORK – In September 2018, Ian Buruma was forced out as editor of The New York Review of Books, following an outcry over the magazine’s publication of a controversial essay about #MeToo. A year later, in a conversation with Svenska Dagbladet US correspondent Malin Ekman, he reflects on lost assignments, literature, cancel culture, threats to freedom of speech, and the state of liberal democracy.