because the time to prepare is before you go on medicare. don t wait. get started today. call unitedhealthcare for your free decision guide. when we first conceived of the velshi banned book club a few months ago, they were a handful of titles that kept coming. up everyone, from producers to book club members, we are requesting in emails to hear from margaret atwood. and everyone wanted to talk about the handmaids tail. if you are among the minority of booklet members who have yet to experience the handmaids tail, from either a book or tv stage or film adaptation, here is the plot. in a near future, a totalitarian theocratic military dictatorship, known as
atwood s bestseller, for what s felt like a possible future. she even took to wearing the full rank length web red dresses in the white onyx that are synonymous with the hints in the book, as they say, life imitating art. many years later we discuss the themes that are inherent to the handmade still every single day on velshi. the increased irritation of women s reproductive rights, the rise of autocratic regimes. flagrant disregard for environmental issues. and just yesterday, the forced removal of children from their mothers. the handmaids sale also deals daftly with book banning, and censorship. in gilead and in real life, there is one particularly powerful seen in the handmaids tale that illustrates the odd irony in bidding this book. storms are going make 38 offred recalls a time before the game was overthrown, seeing books
a theocracy that purports to be question. they have of course distorted everything, but you seal of that going on around you anyway today. so the question i was asking myself was, if there were to be a to tele-therrien state in the united states, what form would you take? what would be communist? would it be? we probably refer to this in the 17th century, when the united states and the new england colonies started as a theocracy. and it is a huge theme in the handmaids tale. in fact some people have called it a religious critique. you make sure to separate got from gilead, the theocracy. a friend, the protagonist, even says in a later quote, i do not believe for an instance that s what is going on here is what you meant. a member of our banned book club, debonair, right wrote in
chilling. you know ali, coming up on the sunday show, we will highlight one pablo migrants planned to give teens all across the country access to free books, which have been banned. like the handmaids tail. the head of the brooklyn public library will join me to talk about it books on banned initiative. also, from the halls of congress, tim kaine, chair of the progressive caucus are going to join me to talk about the spending will, voting rights, and much more. plus, the nation s first out trans person till elected to its state legislator. danica rome. she will stop by to talk about her new book in the wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country. one more thing ali. if it is sunday, it is a packed show. sunday show favorites stopping by live onset. actress and activists cheri lee ralph, and her husband vincent
state tennessee state representative, had an answer to that very question. let s say you take the books out of the library, what will you do with them? are you going to put them in the street? light them on fire? where are they going? i do not have a clue but i would burn them. i would burnham. burn the books. burning books that do not fix that do not fit your political narrative is reminiscent of the history s darkest times of ruthless on authoritarian regimes that whitewash history. taking a page, literally, from nazi germany s playbook. in 1993, students in german universities said five or two more than 25,000 books that were deemed quote on german. every day, the world in which we live a feels like a dystopia cooked up in a margaret atwood novel. her novel, the handmaids tale,