BY HANK REICHMAN A year ago I began a post to this blog, “Yesterday’s election results in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere have boosted the spirits of Democrats and progressives.  One of the less widely publicized results, however, has been the stunning rebuke suffered by book-banners and transphobes like Moms for Liberty in school board…

BY RANDI SHEDLOSKY-SHOEMAKER Learning—in all of its forms—represents some change in behavior or thoughts based on direct or indirect experiences. Of course, the range of experiences we can directly access might be limited for a variety of reasons. That’s where books, or more broadly narratives, can provide a pathway to a reality beyond the one…

 BY HARVEY J. GRAFF  Today’s campaigns to ban books in schools—nationally organized and well-funded by right-wing donors and interest groups—are unprecedented, unconstitutional, and inhumane. Their instigators, unlike predecessors who led past campaigns, are ignorant of the texts they seek to erase, and sometimes burn. They have no understanding of “the people” or “public interest”; children’s…