“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” ―Benjamin Franklin
Sept. 22-28, 2024, marks the annual observation of Banned Books Week, first established in 1982 by the Office of Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association (ALA). If you’re old enough, you’ll remember that the 1980s were a hotbed of paranoia: the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell, the “Satanic Panic”, and…