The Importance of Civil Discourse during the Rise of Totalitarianism

Murthy v. Missouri challenges the government's censorship via social media companies. Plaintiffs include: Aaron Kheriaty, M.D.,, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, formerly of Harvard, (co-authors of The Great Barrington Declaration) Jill Hines, who runs a Health Freedom Group in Louisiana, and a journalist named Jim Hoff. The Plaintiff’s are being represented by New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group.

Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., a psychiatrist, is the director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Health and Human Flourishing Program at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. He formerly taught psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine, was the director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, and was the chairman of the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals. Dr. Kheriaty’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Arc Digital, New Atlantis, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things.

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