Articles Tagged with book bans

Major Book Publisher Sues Florida School District Over Book Bans

May 18, 2023

A Florida school district was sued on Wednesday by Penguin Random House, advocacy group PEN America, authors, and parents, over its recent book banning.

Tagged: book bans, Equal Protection, first amendment, Fourteenth Amendment

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On to the Next Crisis

Cornell professor Joseph Margulies argues that the debt-ceiling “crisis” was manufactured by politicians and the media and that our nation is structurally induced to preserve and enflame such problems rather than solve them.

Lessons Learned When Abolitionists Seek to Save the Lives of Mass Murderers Like Robert Bowers

Amherst professor Austin Sarat points out that when death penalty abolitionists take up the cause of saving the lives of people accused of mass murder, they need also to keep reminding people that, in the many less notorious cases in which the state seeks death as a punishment, the death penalty continues to legitimize vengeance, intensify racial divisions, promise simple solutions to complex problems, and damage our political and legal institutions.