Jonah Goldberg: Is ‘banned on Facebook’ the new ‘banned in Boston’?
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
May 07, 2021
3 minutes
“Banned in Boston” is a phrase that probably doesn’t resonate with many people today. But there was a time when “Footloose” might as well have been set in Beantown.
Founded by Puritans in the 1630s, Boston held onto its Puritan zeal — if not necessarily the Puritan faith — for centuries. From 1659 to 1681, Christmas was outlawed there. Long after the American Revolution, which started there, Boston famously banned books, plays, songs. In 1882 Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of
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