Eli Lake

Eli Lake (1972-) is an American writer, journalist, and podcaster. He covered national security for The Daily Beast and Newsweek and currently presents a history podcast for The Free Press.


Historically, the campaigns to coerce obedience to new limitations on speech or taboos end in failure.

Most Americans don't like being told what they can and can't say. The word police may win battles, but they inevitably lose the war.

The way to win a culture war is to persuade the other side of the new taboo, not coerce the rest of us into obedience...through the courts, the state, or the threat of cancellation.

The word police may temporarily succeed, but more often than not, they trigger a backlash that opens the door to the very kind expression they sought to stifle.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.