Miranda Devine Among Winners of RealClear Foundation’s Inaugural Samizdat Prize
On February 25th, RealClear Foundation awarded their inaugural Samizdat Prize to New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, journalist Matt Taibbi, and Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
Real Clear Foundation President David DesRosiers shared in an interview with RealClear Politics in September that the award was named for an underground literary network in the Soviet Union.
“What does Samizdat mean? It translates as ‘self-published’ in Russian. Samizdat was the underground literary network in the Soviet Union that distributed Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago,” DesRosiers said.
“Are we suggesting the American mind and society are closing and becoming more Orwellian and Soviet? Yes, we are. This is why we inaugurated the Samizdat prize, to celebrate those great few who stand for freedom of speech,
