The attack on Salman Rushdie is the inevitable result of book banning from efforts. Whether book banning or book burning is sanctioned by the state or by pressure groups or by individuals, it is evil. The militarization of book banning has but one end, and that is the violent suppression of all non-complaint belief and… Read more

The first sentence is a gem: “At a time when so many books are being written, and so many of them are so long, the reader of any book is entitled to ask why it had to be written at all and, if the book absolutely had to exist, why it couldn’t have been shorter.”… Read more