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San Francisco: Florida’s Department of Education has rejected two new textbooks on the Holocaust and has announced that there will be no approved Holocaust texts in the following year. The department does not give reasons for the censorship, but one can imagine that they do not meet the standards of the Stop the Woke Act established by Gov. Ron DeSantis. In Florida’s desire to meet the standards of this act — one of its tenets being that children should not feel guilt or shame in relation to historical events — the state has a litmus test that strips the human element from education.

Bronx: Everyone should watch the U.S. Supreme Court case Counterman vs. Colorado, where they are debating what constitutes “true threats” regarding online cyberstalking. This debate was settled decades ago: Free speech in America has super-protections, and even “I’m going to kill you!” is not an actual threat, the justices correctly said long ago. Americans trash talk every day, and 99% of threats are not threats at all.

Manhattan: I knew Irene Cara back in the 1970s! I tracked her down after her agent, Selma Rubin, told me she was giving a talk to a group of students at the New York Public Library on W. 52nd St. She was quiet and gracious and said yes when I asked her to perform a benefit concert for the famous Riverside Theatre Workshop, which started at The Riverside Church.

Brooklyn: Candy Schulman’s lovely July 19 op-ed, “An ode to librarians as they come under siege,” struck a poignant note with me. It took me back to a time nearly 22 years ago when I was under relentless financial hardship. I had lost my job and was trying to find another one, and my friends had relocated to other states and had no communication with me.

Garwood, N.J.: This letter is in response to Voicer Robert J. SanFilippo: Thank you for your letter. It made me smile. I could not finish reading Dr. Andrew Wickline’s op-ed (“The right way to curb opioid abuse by Americans,” May 16) because I was laughing, too.