Book-burning bozos back; painful parallels pondered
Welp. It appears that the book-burners have returned, as they so often seem to in times of national strife, and it is not a comforting sight. As New York Times… Read more »
We were both startled and delighted to read in the Wall Street Journal, natch, that our nation’s long-suffering right-wing scribes have finally found people brave enough to bear the withering… Read more »
Anti-Antifa book protested at Powell’s Books; free speech confusion continues
Protestors have gathered at famous indie bookstore Powell’s, in Portland, Oregon, to express their opposition to the store’s selling of Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by right-wing… Read more »
Trump attempting to block niece’s tell-all book
Trump has dramatically lost favor in the wake of his mishandling COVID-19 testing and Black Lives Matter protests, but now even his family is intent on lifting the veil and… Read more »
“C” is for “Censorship”; CIA deploys iron-fisted approval process: sycophants only, please!
The pending publication of moustachioed former national security adviser John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened has run into snags during the process of being vetted by the Central… Read more »
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line
Last week we posted our admittedly somewhat jaded reactions to the news that the anonymous author of the much-discussed anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times has written a book.… Read more »
PEN protests prison prohibitions: book ban bemoaned
This week is officially Banned Books Week, in which we focus on the myriad ways that free expression is threatened here in America. And as famed advocacy group PEN America… Read more »