It's right there, in the press release: >>> Jonathan Friedman, Sy Syms director of PEN America’s U.S. Free Expression programs, said: “The irony cannot be los

It's right there, in the press release: >>> Jonathan Friedman, Sy Syms director of PEN America’s U.S. Free Expression programs, said: “The irony cannot be lost here: government officials have used their positions to muscle out a scholar of authoritarianism from a prestigious lecture," <<<