"News and Opinion" archive

Education Last!

I love this story from Kenya: Archbishop Says Ban Book From Schools Catholic Archbiship Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki has advised that a book by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. A Man of the People is a 40-year-old book that deals with politics...



SciFi Classics Challenged

From the Rio Grande Valley of Texas comes word of challenges to Huxley and Heinlein. Apparently, Huxley's Brave New World and Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land are "pornographic". One of the misconceptions about Banned Books Week, I think, is...