Helen Garner says the State Library of Victoria has been turned into “party central” and a plan to cut jobs and focus on digital projects will “bring disgrace on the name of... Read more »
Florida public schools remove library books, fearing state reprisal Aug 08 2025 Nine Florida counties have removed hundreds of books from public school classrooms and libraries before the start of the 2025–2026... Read more »
Book News: Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries
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Book News: Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans
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Book News: PEN America finds new state laws are supercharging school book bans
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Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks state effort to ban books from school libraries Jun 13 2024 On June 11, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state Department of Education overstepped its authority... Read more »
Salman Rushdie has said that the formation of a Palestinian state âright nowâ would mean a âTaliban-like stateâ is created. Commenting on the US campus protesters calling for a free Palestine, the... Read more »
Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or... Read more »
“Citizen Darfour went to the House of Commons and presented a brief intended to destroy our institutions and upset the state …”—Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle extraordinaire, 1 September 1822 It is... Read more »