Alberta’s conservative government just discovered that banning books about authoritarian control might make you look authoritarian.
As reported in the Guardian, Premier Danielle Smith had to slam the brakes on her shiny new book ban after librarians dutifully started pulling classics like The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Brave New World off the shelves, novels about totalitarian governments controlling what people can read. — Read the rest
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