Cover of the book, "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin. The cover is light gray with a black line forming a circle around a black dot in the center. Photo by Mary Warner, July 21, 2025.
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Artists & Freedom

by Mary

I recently finished reading “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” a book by record producer Rick Rubin.

Cover of the book, "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin. The cover is light gray with a black line forming a circle around a black dot in the center. Photo by Mary Warner, July 21, 2025.
Cover of the book, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” by Rick Rubin. The cover is light gray with a black line forming a circle around a black dot in the center. Photo by Mary Warner, July 21, 2025.

 

A particular sentence on page 319 jumped out at me:

“The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be.”

Given last week’s news about Paramount axing “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” most likely due to Paramount capitulating to the Trump administration so their merger goes through with Skydance Media, we need to hold fast to this sentiment and do all we can to allow artists to express themselves freely.

If we can’t do that, the freedom of expression for the rest of us is on the line.

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2 thoughts on “Artists & Freedom”

  1. CBS says it’s cancelling the entire show for ‘financial reasons”. Yeah, right. Their main financial consideration is their attempt to see that this merger goes through by doing something trump wants no doubt, so their financial situation will get better. 🙁

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