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Are Banned Books Good for Us?

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When we think about book banning, we commonly put the focus on the censors, book banners, and, worst of all, book burners. From the vantage point of a liberal democratic value system, book banning is one of the hallmarks of authoritarian and totalitarian societies, a means by which tyrannical regimes demonstrate symbolic power, even as the practice is also commonly spearheaded by concerned citizens within liberal-democratic societies. But does that necessarily bestow high social value on banned books? 

Recommended reading: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

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