Examining Salman Rushdie's Lifelong Fight for Free Speech
Three days after being stabbed repeatedly on stage as he prepared to give a lecture, author Salman Rushdie is recovering while the man accused of attacking him has been charged with attempted murder. Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist and president of PEN America, joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss Rushdie's life, his work, and the broader impact of the attack on him.
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