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Behind the nationwide rise of book bans

Summary by Stanford Daily

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although book banning has always existed and occurred in the country, there has been an unprecedented rise in bans in the last three years, and even more so in the last year. During the 2023-24 academic year, Poets, Essayists, Novelists (PEN) America recorded …

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