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Last week, I wrote about the red-tagging that some people have done on Popular Book Store in Timog, Quezon City and La Solidaridad Bookshop in Ermita, Manila.

Hasn’t Tennessee been in this mess before? When William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow were going at it during “Scopes,” H.L. Mencken supposedly had to stand on a table frequently to catch the action in the packed courthouse in rural Tennessee. The story goes that one time the table collapsed underneath him and one of the sisters in the audience announced: “It’s a jedgment! The walls are falling in and Mr. Mencken is the first to go. And he won’t go to glory, either!”

Hasn't Tennessee been in this mess before?

Fahrenheit 451, dystopian novel, published in 1953, that is perhaps the greatest work written by American author Ray Bradbury and has been praised for its stance against censorship and blind conformity as well as its defense of literature as necessary to civilization. Learn more about the novel’s plot and characters.

by David Penner / April 11th, 2021 We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. — Gore Vidal, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia, 2004 As Americans drown in debt and atomization, the liberal class applauds the arrival of a post-nation-state neo-feudal order which is devoid of checks and balances, integration, national cohesion, or collective memory, rendering any working class resistance to fascism a Herculean task. This has be...