Artist and activist Ai Weiwei talks 'On Censorship' essay July 3, 2026
Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career. Earlier this year, he published an extended essay “On Censorship.”
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong met with Weiwei at NPR’s New York studios to talk about the book.
I don't think anyone believed the US would honour the peace deal they signed, says Prof Glenn Diesen. Diplomacy is only a disruption tactic to regroup and strike again. It's about trying to restore global primacy. Burning the Gulf
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‘Moscow will fall’: Ukraine just hit 19 of Russia’s shadow fleet tankers in 72 hours to choke off Crimea
The "Olympic Hide and Seek Final" is a classic Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (from Episode 35, "The Nude Organist") featuring absurdly extreme rules where competitors hide anywhere on Earth [1]. The seeker begins by counting against a local monument, while the hiders travel globally to evade detection for years.
The sketch opens with the stadium announcer (Graham Chapman) and commentator (John Cleese) explaining the rules: competitors are given a head start to hide anywhere in the world.
The two finalists, Don Roberts and Francisco Huron, are followed by cameras as they travel across the globe. After months of searching, Huron finds Roberts, taking over as the seeker. This pattern continues, with the game lasting so long that the competitors go through life stages and the sport itself is relocated to new venues based on the passage of time. [1, 2]
You can read the full dialogue and classic punchlines on the Monty Python Scripts page.
Olympic Men's Hide and Seek Final. 😄😄😄
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Official: "The official result of the World Hide-and-Seek, Mr. Don Roberrs from Hinckley, Leicestershire, 11 years, 2 months, 26 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes, 27 seconds. Mr. Francisco Huron, Paraguay, 11 years, a months, 26 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes, 27 seconds. The result - a tie."
Jun 26, 2021P.D.Q. Bach - Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sportscast (New Horizons in Music Appreciation) Professor Peter Schickele, announcer Robert Dennis, color commentator The New York Mills Philharmonic Heiliger Dankgesang, conductor Being the center of P. D. Q. Bach studies in the United States indeed, in the world is not the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople's only claim to fame. History was made by this writer when U. of S.N.D. at H's radio station broadcast this presentation of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (the "Famous") in a program that boldly opened up dramatic new vistas in the volatile, dynamic, ever-changing field of high school Music Appreciation. Huge amounts of time and money have been spent on this area of human endeavor, both for young people and adults, since everybody knows that you can't really be enjoying something unless you can tell why you're enjoying it. But the effectiveness of reading or hearing a lengthy explanation of what's happening in a piece of music is vitiated by your usually forgetting most of what you have read or heard by the time you get around to hearing the music about which you were reading or hearing. It occurred to this writer that a feather might be taken from the cap of sporting events, or rather the broadcasting of sporting events, whose distant audiences are never asked to rely on their memories for more than a few seconds at a time to stem the encroaching tide of ignorance that threatens to engulf our concert halls. In short, tell it like it is while it is. That this approach is indeed effective is anested to by many teachers, who tell me that they use this presentation of the Fifth as an introduction to Beethoven or to the symphony or to sonata form or to phonograph records. Although not a work by P.D.Q. Bach or even in any way relevant to his oeuvre, we take great pride in presenting this landmark in the history of pedagogical desperation.
Trump & the Epstein Class Gets EXPOSED by Iran: July 4th TRUTH BOMB Blows Up
"We have to come to terms with reality. We have to come to terms with the true state of the present situation. And that is that the US empire, the Epstein class, these super rich and corrupt and absolutely abhorent individuals, some of them uh just can be counted on a handful that they are hoping that their empire's collapse will lead them to greater riches in the short term and an escape valve in the long term. And what do I mean by that?"
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Trump & the Epstein Class Gets EXPOSED by Iran: July 4th TRUTH BOMB Blows Up
"Because let's be honest, the US " 8:30 "...empire cannot cooperate with other countries. We use this term on this show a lot, agreement incapable. The US is not capable of cooperating with other countries. It only knows how to dominate. The Epstein class views every country in the world as a subservient to it. It even views its so-called partners as that, including Europe and including Israel. When Donald Trump says he is charge, you better believe that the Epstein class believes who wields power in the United States believe they are in charge of Israel or they view Israel as simply an appendage of the US Empire. We have to get away from these arguments and debates that Israel and the United States who controls who in in in many respects uh these are two cheeks as George Galloway says of the same backside. They are working for the same system of empire that is ravaging the world today."
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The 14th Dalai Lama’s 91st birthday, and a premiere of a community documentary, will be celebrated by the Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts Monday.
Regional Tibetan community to mark Dalai Lama’s 91st birthday July 4, 2026
Tibetans are gathering at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 120 Russell St., starting at 11 a.m., to culminate the global Year of Compassion that began in July 2025.
The celebration will feature cultural performances, community tributes, remarks and the world premiere of the community documentary film “Year of Compassion: Massachusetts Tribute to the Dalai Lama at 90.”
HADLEY — The 14th Dalai Lama’s 91st birthday, and a premiere of a community documentary, will be celebrated by the Regional Tibetan Associat
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei talks 'On Censorship' essay July 03, 2026
cclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career. Earlier this year, he published an extended essay "On Censorship."
Here & Now's Scott Tong met with Weiwei at NPR's New York studios to talk about the book.
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