The Freedom of Expression Address by George Packer

The Bridges City of Asylum Pittsburgh Creative Summit welcomes award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic, George Packer, to speak about what it means to write in a world of increasing authoritarianism. George Packer’s books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.