Banned Books

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What prompts book challenges? What fears, anxieties and social concerns cause certain types of ideas to seem dangerous, especially in schools and public libraries? Are there legitimate limits to what can be thought and said, even in a country with free speech laws and norms as robust as in the United States? Informed citizenship calls on us to understand the complex interrelationship of obscenity, censorship, childhood education and the right to freedom of expression.