Who Are the Book Banners Again?

Aug 25, 2026 10:00 AM
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Who Are the Book Banners Again?
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If you've ever driven through the suburbs, you've probably seen a "little free library" in someone's front yard. The concept is simple: people erect boxes — some more ornate than others — and fill them with books. Passersby can take a book and leave a book, and everyone reads. It's a great way to clear out cluttered shelves and experience new books.

But, as always, the Left must ruin everything that's good for the sake of its political agenda. That's why this leftist woman — why is it always the women? — has made it her duty to remove "right-wing and religious books" from those libraries and put her own leftist literature in their place.

I have been forced, ad nauseam, to listen to the Left scream about how Republicans are banning books in school libraries. Every time a parent objects to a school library carrying a book featuring fellatio that's aimed at kindergarteners, the Left acts like it's the next Bücherverbrennung. In the real world, parents who wish to subject their children can still purchase those books on Amazon.

Amazon should probably provide a free visit from CPS with every purchase.

But I digress.

Meanwhile, as I've written about in the past, the Left is the ones actually banning books. Publisher Simon & Schuster axed a book by Sen. Josh Hawley following the January 6 protests, saying at the time, "As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom." They had no problem publishing books by a woman who called Jews "cockroaches" or giving $1.4 million to the late fabulist and former Cambridge professor Jason Arday.

In June, I wrote about how Amazon "erroneously" pulled a book by conservative YouTuber Mark Dice. The book, ironically titled "The War on Conservatives," was removed on June 16 despite thousands of five-star ratings and having reached No. 4 on Amazon's overall bestseller list. Dice said that had the Daily Caller not reached out to Amazon to inquire why his book was pulled, Amazon would have kept it off its website. 

A few months before that, we learned Amazon had banned "Camp of the Saints," by French author Jean Raspail. He wrote the book in 1973 about a dystopian future where French society (and European society at large) collapsed under the weight of unchecked mass migration from the Third World.

Gee, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

The r/bannedbooks subreddit actually celebrated this censorship, calling Raspail's work "less of a book and more of a racist declamation." 

With the Left, every accusation is actually a confession. When they accuse the Right of being censorious, it's because they are the censors and I have the receipts to prove it.

It also shows how fragile and easily debunked leftist ideology really is. If the woman above was certain her views were right, and that she had the ability to articulate and defend them, she wouldn't have to steal conservative books and religious writings from free little libraries. There's a reason why I don't go around stealing leftist works from little free libraries. For starters, I have a life and a job and a family. But I also have confidence in what I believe and my ability to articulate it.

I don't need to resort to censorship of opposing ideas because I'm certain the existence of those ideas doesn't threaten me in any way (those ideas put into public policy, on the other hand, is a different story).

But she's not. Because her ideology — her entire worldview — is indefensible. So she has to resort to tyranny to protect it.

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