Publishing during wartime: Chickens, roosting
Milo Yiannopoulos went down in flames yesterday — spectacularly so, in a way that will likely leave him a regular guest on the Bill Maher show but unemployed and radioactive forever… Read more »
Publishing during wartime, part II
In yet another heart-rending sign of HOW THE LEFT IS PROBABLY GOING TO BLOW THE WAR AGAINST TRUMP, many of the publishing industry’s leading trade organizations including the Authors Guild,… Read more »
Words from a Stone: Columbia University radio show tells writer she can read her story on-air only if it’s censored
Last week, I had a long talk with Laurie Stone about censorship. It wasn’t the interview she had been planning for. The conversation Stone had expected would have taken place on… Read more »
Climate change “might” be real; it “may” be caused by humans; it “could” be very bad.
Last month, we reported on the Portland Public School Board’s decision to “abandon the use of any adopted text or material that is found to express doubt about the severity of… Read more »
Virginia’s “Beloved bill” would let parents block sexually explicit literature in the classroom
In 2013, the Washington Post’s T. Rees Shapiro profiled Laura Murphy, a Fairfax County, Virginia parent, whose son, Blake Murphy, was assigned Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved for his… Read more »