Banned Books Week: ‘There Is More Than One Way to Burn a Book’
How Many of the 100 Most Challenged Books have you read?
In his dissenting opinion in Ginzburg v. United States, Justice Potter Stewart wrote that censorship reflects “a society’s lack of confidence in itself,” and is the “hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” All censorship is done in the name of protecting and defending society from ideas or truth that are deemed dangerous, harmful, or inconvenient. You can cut pages out of a book. You can blacklist it. You can even burn it to ash. But you can’t really burn an idea. And God knows, some have tried.
Since this is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, I thought I would look at some of the books that are most frequently challenged for removal, as well as the reasoning behind those challenges. Follow beneath the fold for more ….
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