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What Banned Books Teach

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Out of Left Field

  • Publication: East Hampton Press
  • Published on: May 26, 2023
  • Columnist: Anthony Brandt
I have been reading a great deal of history recently, as well as keeping up with The New York Times, and have been both appalled and amused by Ron DeSantis’s... more

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