Commentary While checking out the “banned and challenged” display at my local Barnes & Noble recently, I was reminded that the entire kerfuffle is a giant racket. For publishers and booksellers, “banned” books are likely a money-making racket. Virtually every allegedly “banned” book on the display table is already a massive (sometimes generational) bestseller. Not…

Many books in today’s school libraries include outright child pornography because of a massive gap in the way America protects children, according to a parental rights group. Unlike movies or TV shows, books have no content rating, according to Emily Maikisch of BookLooks. Her website, launched in March 2022, has rated over 297 books found…

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…

To commemorate the third anniversary of Hong Kong’s June 12, some Hongkongers in the UK, organized an exhibition “Bricks on the Road: From Hong Kong to the World” on the June 11 and 12, 2022. Within a few hours on the first day of the exhibition, hundreds of Hongkongers in the UK and many locals…

To commemorate the third anniversary of Hong Kong’s June 12, some Hongkongers in the UK, organized an exhibition “Bricks on the Road: From Hong Kong to the World” on the June 11 and 12, 2022. Within a few hours on the first day of the exhibition, hundreds of Hongkongers in the UK and many locals…

Commentary The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a trade organization for America’s dwindling number of independent, non-chain bookstores. Those community-based stores “serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas” the ABA’s website declares. Unless, it would seem, the “ideas” are deemed objectionable by the progressive powers that be. Then, the ABA switches…