Eleanor J. Bader

When Louisiana middle school librarian Amanda Jones spoke before the Livingston Parish Public Library board in July 2022, she knew some of her neighbors and friends would disagree with her anti-censorship and anti-book-ban testimony. Nonetheless, Jones reported that she was blindsided by the well-organized campaign that followed her presentation and was shocked by the barrage of hateful comments that she’s received for more than two years. Among other things, Jones has been called a pedophile, pervert, pornographer and groomer, an experience she details in her newly-released memoir, That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America .

New Yorkers Can Vote 'to Protect Abortion and Reproductive Freedom' Through a First-of-its-Kind Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Ballot Measure

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PUBLISHED by According to the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) , the state of Louisiana “locks up a higher percentage of its people than any independent democratic country on earth.”

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Journalist Talia Lavin's second book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America, reports that a huge swath of the U.S. body politic—at least 10 million people—subscribe to the Evangelical notion that spiritual warfare is necessary to create God’s kingdom on earth. A deep distrust of secular authority, she writes, coupled with rigid ideas about gender, sexuality, and power has led many Evangelicals into conservative political activism. Lavin spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader several weeks before the book’s October 15 release.

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The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.

Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.

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