11/16/2025
📚 Check out this introduction by David Spector for 'Book Bans in Florida: Selected Opinion Pieces'! “In one article,” he writes, “certain groups of people seem to consider reading/the printed word so powerful and so able to capture young minds that its availability has been rigorously policed. But in the second article, those very same young minds (as well as older minds) are in no danger of being led astray by the ‘wrong kind of books’. And that is because young people don’t much read any kind of books these days, wrong or right. They get their views from other sources.
“Even if not oxymoronic, the two articles are informative and very entertaining. And together they characterize the inhospitable environment in which reading finds itself; but also highlight what we would lose were the act of reading to be curtailed.”
What follows are thought-provoking pieces - “Book bans reflect conservatives’ fear of a changing world” by Diane Roberts, and “A society that stops reading stops thinking” by Orlando Sentinel and Chicago Tribune Editorial Boards.
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