American Pandemic ‘Samizdat’

American Pandemic ‘Samizdat’
Dr. Anthony Fauci, then NIAID director, attends a press briefing at the White House in Washington on Nov. 22, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
Jay Bhattacharya
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On May 15, 1970, The New York Times published an article by esteemed Russia scholar Albert Parry detailing how Soviet dissident intellectuals were covertly passing forbidden ideas around to each other on handcrafted, typewritten documents called samizdat. Here’s the beginning of that seminal story:

Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya
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Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute.
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