A. Barton Hinkle on How Liberals Became the New Book Banners

Last
week, American liberals gave Banned Books Week a lot of attention.
The New York Times, for example, has run countless
features on it, from “Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week” and
“What Are You Doing for Banned Books Week?” to a 2009 editorial
appreciation of the American Library Association’s Judith Krug, who
established Banned Books Week back in the ’80s, “during one of the
nation’s periodic censorship epidemics.” Yet as A. Barton Hinkle
observes, the Times and its liberal readership also favor
banning books. That’s evident from the paper’s editorial support
for a constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizens
United and curtail the reach of the First Amendment.

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