Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books
by Joshua Pederson, Los Angeles Times
Oct 25, 2022
2 minutes
Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.
So perhaps it isn’t surprising that in the midst of a flood of book bans we’re also
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