In his first interview since being attacked at knife-point over his book The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie spoke to CBS about the dangers of modern censorship. Rushdie told all during a 60 Minutes segment, from the devastating 2022 attack that left him critically wounded to the dangers of softening attitudes towards censorship.
The word censorship carries a grim Orwellian tang, doesn't it? Restrictions, bans, blocks, and worse—it's just a bad time. Rushdie, however, claims that popular opinion about censorship is experiencing an alarming shift amongst today's young people.
