Column – Book banning pads coffers of pandering politicians

Column – Book banning pads coffers of pandering politicians

Book banning has been around ever since there have been books to ban, and the practice is alive and increasingly active in the United States today.  Controlling what people, particularly young people, read has become a potent weapon in our repetitive social wars, and the books that book banners are most likely to target often address issues that are currently under political attack. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Free…