Introducing Reading the Globe, a new original weekly podcast produced by AudioHopper. Every Thursday, host Michael Washburn summarizes, synthesizes and criticizes the week’s most important and fascinating stories. This week, Reading the Globe considers:

The crackdown on press freedom in Hong Kong. As reported in the Economist’s new issue of June 19, 2021, the so-called national security law that China forced on Hong Kong a year ago has led to one of the most aggressive crackdowns on press freedom in living memory. Police have arrested Ryan Law, editor of the Apple Daily newspaper, and conducted a massive raid on the publication’s offices.

The law school of the University of Illinois at Chicago has taken the step of dropping the name of John Marshall, the fourth SCOTUS chief justice. The reason for thi ...