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The Truth About Banned Books January 19, 2024
Over the last couple years, the media have peddled a narrative of “book bans” sweeping the nation. Book bans (ostensibly by the right) are “eating away at democracy,” according to The Guardian, and are “taking an emotional toll,” warned CNN. The outr...
Read Banned Books — Just Not conservative Ones June 29, 2023
New York Times critic A.O. Scott is concerned about America’s reading crisis. “Across the country,” he wrote in a recent Sunday edition of the Times, “Republican politicians and conservative activists are removing books from classroom and library she...
The Left Twists the Meaning of “Book Ban” June 27, 2023
The Left has been collectively hyperventilating about “book bans” for months. No one should be surprised that liberals are redefining the word “ban” in an effort to stigmatize conservative politicians leading the movement for parental rights in educa...
The Truth about 'Book Bans' June 02, 2023
The left is hard launching its response to the parental rights movement sweeping the country, and it has settled on a nifty phrase: “book bans.”Numerous media headlines, advocacy organization press releases and activist social media posts have decrie...
On the 'Banned Books' People March 30, 2023
Did you know that the 1619 Project is a banned book? This might surprise you, given that it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, has a Hulu original series, and that governments everywhere are paying the author tens of thousands of dollars to sp...
A Poem For Dr. Seuss Day: 'The List With A Fist' March 02, 2022
Too racist is Seuss, and too old, dead, and pale. Too old for the times, too cruel and too male....
A Secret Trove of Obscene Material January 15, 2019
Late in his tenure as head of the Bodleian Library, E. W. B. Nicholson received an unusual letter from a History fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. The correspondent explained that he had been asked to enquire on behalf of a Cambridge don whether the...
