Two for Tuesday: How banned are the banned books?
Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »
Anxious governments: Japan seeks to remove “comfort women” from textbooks and history
Last week we covered the removal of nature words from Oxford Junior Dictionary and Oxford University Press’s new policy regarding culturally sensitive subjects; discussing the week’s news yesterday, Alex Shephard… Read more »
World’s Best Dad arrested while protesting his daughter’s “triple-X-rated” reading assignment
A father in Gilford, NH was arrested for disorderly conduct at a school board meeting, while protesting the sexual content in Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes, which had been assigned to… Read more »
I Am Malala banned in Pakistan’s private schools
Zarar Khan reported for the Associated Press this weekend (picked up here by the Boston Globe) that Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, has been been in private schools across… Read more »
Censored books found buried beneath National Archives
After so much talk about scary new forms of censorship, it’s interesting to reflect on the halcyon days when prudish customs officials were sometimes all we had to worry about. David… Read more »