- Jul 2024
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www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
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Yurcaba, Jo. “Alabama Library Flagged a Children’s Book Because the Author’s Last Name Is ‘Gay.’” NBC News, October 10, 2023. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/alabama-library-flagged-childrens-book-authors-last-name-gay-rcna119747.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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The couple knew firsthand of Edmund Wilson’s travails with “Memoirs of Hecate County,” a story collection that was withdrawn from sale and prosecuted for obscenity, in 1946. Wilson’s case had made its way to the Supreme Court, which upheld the ban.
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- Apr 2024
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apnews.com apnews.com
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DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, blames liberal activist who wanted Bible out of schools by [[Brendan Farrington]]
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The Associated Press asked DeSantis’ office for examples of liberal activists abusing the law and it provided one: Chaz Stevens, a South Florida resident who has often lampooned government. Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses.
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- Sep 2023
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statecraft.beehiiv.com statecraft.beehiiv.com
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The Topic Concentration chart above lends the clearest picture into the implied rationale behind the bans. Namely, the bans are not and have not been about the physical removal of a book from a shelf. The bans instead are meant to: Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted)
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- Aug 2023
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A pro-gram of social reform cannot be achieved through the educa-tional system unless it is one that the society is prepared toaccept. The educational system is the society's attempt toperpetuate itself and its own ideals.
Current day book banners (2022-2023) wouldn't agree here.
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- May 2023
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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From the Republican perspective, banning books would also seem to be a hypocritical means of restricting commerce and trade.
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- Apr 2023
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the Montessori model of education was banned in Nazi Germany in1936
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- Aug 2022
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https://boingboing.net/2022/08/23/book-banned-at-a-school-named-after-its-author.html
George Dawson Middle School in Southlake, Texas has banned the book Life is So Good written by the school's namesake George Dawson, the grandson of a slave who learned to read at 98 and wrote the book at 103.
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- Apr 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @AdamJKucharski: I see countries are introducing reactive bilateral travel bans again... Https://t.co/2tLXazEgZv’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 12 July 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1397696330110169092
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- May 2021
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www.medrxiv.org www.medrxiv.org
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Angulo, M. T., Castaños, F., Velasco-Hernandez, J. X., & Moreno, J. A. (2020). A simple criterion to design optimal nonpharmaceutical interventions for epidemic outbreaks. MedRxiv, 2020.05.19.20107268. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.19.20107268
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- Jul 2020
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Anderson, Stuart. ‘New International Students To U.S. May Hit Post-WW2 Low’. Forbes. Accessed 16 July 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/07/13/new-international-students-to-us-may-hit-post-ww2-low/.
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