Post columnist Miranda Devine wins RealClear Foundation’s inaugural Samizdat Prize

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine has been named a winner of the new Samizdat Prize, which is awarded to journalists, scholars and other public figures who resist censorship.

Devine received the RealClear Foundation’s inaugural Samizdat Prize on Feb. 25.

She was awarded the honor alongside journalist Matt Taibbi and Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

I feel honored to receive this inaugural Samizdat award along with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Matt Taibbi,” Devine told The Post on Sunday. 

“In an age of censorship and lies, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Real Clear Politics for creating an independent award to recognize truth-telling and honest journalism.

“While journalists are supposed to be truth-tellers, for Dr. Bhattacharya, it took real courage to defy his colleagues and stand by his data in the middle of COVID,” Devine added. 

Devine also thanked RealClear Politics on X, noting it was a “huge honor.

“I couldn’t think of a better award than the Samizdat Prize, or two more worthy people to share it with in,” she wrote.

The three winners will join commentator Dave Rubin for a live interview at a March 7 gala in Palm Beach, Fla.

Real Clear Foundation President David DesRosiers explained in an interview with RealClear Politics in September that the award was named for an underground literary network in the Soviet Union.

“What does Samizdat mean? It translates as ‘self-published’ in Russian. Samizdat was the underground literary network in the Soviet Union that distributed Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago,” DesRosiers said.

“Are we suggesting the American mind and society are closing and becoming more Orwellian and Soviet? Yes, we are. This is why we inaugurated the Samizdat prize, to celebrate those great few who stand for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of science, even at great personal cost.”