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The Samizdat Prize is an annual award given to journalists, scholars, and public figures who resisted censorship and stood for truth.
Prize Gala
honorees
Abigail Shrier
Author, Irreversible Damage, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Abigail Shrier is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up and Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. She recently received the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism. Abigail’s work regularly appears in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other notable publications. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Jonathan Turley
Professor, George Washington University Law School, Fox News Contributor
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools. He is a Fox News contributor and, recently,the author of the best-selling and award-winning book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Simon & Schuster 2024).
RealClear presents The Samizdat Prize: an annual award honoring courageous journalists and public figures who did not flinch when censorship threatened. Samizdat – “self-publishing” in Russian – was the Soviet-era underground publication network.
The RealClear Samizdat Prize honors those who embody the spirit of last century’s Samizdat literary heroes. We celebrate the journalists and public figures who exhibit unwavering commitment to truth and free speech.
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