A Vietnamese-American authors surveys the books he loved growing up. Some were politically incorrect.
Tag Archives: censorship
Let Kids Read Politically Incorrect Books
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Time to Reread Fahrenheit 451
With attacks on school libraries and school curricula, it’s time to read “Fahrenheit 451” again.
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When a Novel SHOULD Disturb
An author recounts how he encountered de factor censorship when trying to publish a novel on Congolese child soldiers.
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Rightwing Book Bans On the Rise
Banning books is set of accelerate and English teachers and librarians will find themselves as targets, just like medical professionals before them.
Tennessee Returns to the Scopes Days
With rightwing attacks on Tennessee teachers, the Scopes Monkey Trial seems relevant again. Time to revisit “Inherit the Wind.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Christian fundamentalism, Clarence Darrow, Fundamentalism, Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, Scopes Monkey Trial, William Jennings Bryan Comments closed
Milton on Cancel Culture
Yale professor Bromwich applies Milton to the cancel culture debate.
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Puritans vs. Cavalier Theatre
Thursday I’m currently immersed in John Stubbs’s Reprobates, an account of the cavalier poets during England’s 17th century civil war. I met John when I was in Ljubljana—he’s married to a Slovenian high court judge and teaches at the international high school—and the work is even more enthralling than his biography of Jonathan Swift, which […]
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