Why Censorship Is Surging And Why It’s Your F*cking Problem

The Great American Book Purge

In my late twenties, I found myself in a dingy basement bookstore in New York City, thumbing through a dog-eared copy of Henry Miller’s “”

It wasn’t on any reading list. Nobody recommended it. I bought it because somebody, somewhere, at some point in time, had tried to make damn sure I couldn’t read it.

That’s how rebellion works. Tell me I can’t have something, and suddenly, it’s the only fucking thing I want.

So when I see the recent explosion of book banning across America — nearly 200% surge in the last year alone, according to — I have to wonder: Who the fuck died and made these people the literary gatekeepers of our nation?

America’s Weird Obsession With Controlling What We Think

Let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t new.

Americans have been trying to control what other Americans read since before we were even a country. The difference now is it’s happening at a scale that should make anyone who cares about freedom break out in hives.

In 2023, over unique book titles were challenged or banned.