Tag: censorship

Speaking Freely in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Paul Kemeny,...

Examining, with Paul Kemeny, Richard Gamble, and Ben Faber, fraught moments in history where questions about communication and censorship, politics and propaganda, freedom and government intervention came to a head. What might we learn from such moments?

Teaching Banned Books: Huck Finn

The censorship of slavery no longer dictates Huck’s morality. Unlike Tom, Huck has begun to question his society’s standards, to weigh and consider what is just and right, and I hope that by reading this story, my students may follow him in this difficult endeavor.

Academic Porn

The latest from the University of Maryland is a brohaha over the effort by a state legislator to discourage (through the threat of withholding...