My heterodoxy and unwavering commitment to the truth — whether that made me look right-wing, left-wing, or just an artsy weirdo (at times) — didn’t land me a weekly New York Times column, but it did grant me spots in a number of top liberal and conservative-leaning outlets, such as the New York Post, the Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy Magazine, the Grammys (yes, the music awards — their online vertical), and others.

Until it didn’t.

Having taken the heretical line on race, gender, policing, I thought I was immunized from editorial censorship. But, as the pandemic became increasingly politicized through 2021 and 2022 with the rollout of vaccines and public mandates, our society seemed to plunge into further collective psychosis, as spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle has persipaciously observed. …

An industry already compromised in the age of Trump and wokeism completely fell apart during a global pandemic.

[Worth reading in full, even if you may disagree with some or even all of Arora’s arguments. But that’s the point — a free and independent media and free speech allow us to get to truth through debate and evidence. Instead, the media and the government combined up to create a Big Brother “disinformation” suppression system, with disastrous results for both public health and civil rights. And it’s still in operation. — Ed]