These banned books and how many people send in their criticisms and observations about them. it is been a fun year and a half, and to have it as a podcast is pretty exciting. one of the things interesting we talk about the start of the 16 19 project, i feel like we have seen an alteration of the trajectory. a lot of it beginning was about race, the history of race in america, critical race theory, the backlash against it. it quickly moved into sexuality and gender. exactly right. almost with a head snapping speed, which is now where most of the focus appears to be. correct. am i right? yes. and you don t have to do anything to get your book banned. if you write a book about a queer young person, there s a good chance it s gonna get band. if you happen to be a person of color writing their, books is a better chance there will be banned. and if there s any chance of sexual assault which by the way happens to a lot of young people in school, that is also going to get you ban
Was 12 or 13 years old. but sometimes there s a book that comes out. there s immediate controversy. some of these books came out there was no controversy. and there s a sort of sense of backwards drift, that you read book, it goes out, then someone decides it is controversial. that s exactly right. about half my books are authors were quite surprised to be invited to the velshi banned book club. they know their book was banned somewhere. and by the way, was banned some places. commanders are low, they called us enemy, which was about growing up in a japanese american intern ship camp, it was prohibited in some places. a lot of it is just nonsense. the privilege here is, will read the book for you, we ll tell you about it, and you ll just end up with some interesting books you didn t know should even on your radar. ali velshi, the podcast is called the velshi banned book club, it is available. we put that up again.
She was the impetus. everybody went nuts over her book, to ban it, to make sure it wasn t read. a stupid thing to do. what we realized was book banning is the same thing it has always been. you ban books for the same ideas, either the idea annette, in other words what was in 60 19, the very words in it, because some people are just prudish and don t want to hear words about sexual assault or sex or sexuality, or the third one is the author. sun books are just banned because the author s controversial. all three are happening right now. there s nothing new in the world of book began banning except that it s happening a lot. these groups, including moms for liberty, are not reading. they re grabbing a book, finding something problematic, the author, some idea in it, they re taking them off of school curriculum. sometimes out of school libraries. the point is to say don t give other people that choice. you make the choice about what you want to read or don t read. i will was surprised at
Emergencies is simply too hot an emerging market to be left to nonprofits. this is to say that in the wake of disasters, which we are increasingly seeing, there is power and profit online. that s where we are. now of planet warming at an alarming rate, and a presidential field filled with candidates who don t want to talk about it or think it s a hoax. there s a 50/50 chance one of them will be part of the problem. along with protecting our democracy, this is the most important issue at stake in this election. we are in the narrowest window possible to try to avoid real catastrophe. it s a problem that keeps me up at night. it s exactly why i am bringing my podcast, why is this happening, to feel more theater on philadelphia, where my guest will be the great naomi klein. we re gonna wrestle with these great problems. specifically talk about her phenomenal new book called doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world, which is about the ways in which knowledge gets so reflected in our
Major party nominees, i keep saying, basically acquaint flip to win. but it s hardly farfetched either. and i think releasing this mugshot s official vernacular for everyday life is only that the more voters will catch on to the gravity of the acute threat trumpist under. like he never has been before. unconstructed horry served as a federal prosecutor in the justice department. stuart stevens is a senior adviser for the lincoln project, author of the book the conspiracy to end america. part of my idea for how to think about the comedy you out for political where you went through some of this polling. i would love for you to give your thoughts on what the polling says about what the effects of this indictment and this aggregate for indictments