This week in dangerous children’s books, at home and abroad
Another day, another stack of children’s books that are actually socially dangerous tools of the insidious Gay-Muslim-Liberal conspiracy to inculcate the innocent minds of young readers with perverse concepts. Depressed yet? You will be!… Read more »
Texas State Board of Education approves social studies textbooks, doesn’t really know what’s in them (but it’s probably stuff about how Moses was awesome)
Let’s begin with a short quiz: Do you like power? Do you also like ignorance? Do you enjoy imposing your arbitrary wishes and paranoid half-opinions on the population of the… Read more »
Texas library: “Who needs books?”
A public library in San Antonio, TX has taken the digital age to the next level, Paul J. Weber writes for the Associated Press (picked up here by USA Today), by eliminating… Read more »
Is the future of ebooks about to be decided by a judge in East Texas?
A lawsuit filed last Thursday by a proxy for Apple and Microsoft could deal a sharp blow to Google, and might be a glimpse of the bare-knuckled future of competition between… Read more »
Gun rights advocates fear textbook will turn their children into gunless pansies
The Second Amendment is perhaps the most contested passage in all of American literature; unsurprisingly a reader’s interpretation will often have more to do with their own political views than… Read more »
Giant, Texas-sized book auction
It’s finally happening. We warned you. Out of Archer City, Texas, comes Larry McMurtry’s giant Last Book Sale. According to the Austin Chronicle: Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory… Read more »
In Texas, you can make history … by changing it
According to a New York Times journalist, America’s school children have been reading textbooks catering mostly to Texan sensibilities for decades. Gail Collins in the New York Review of Books… Read more »