Broward book bans

Broward County, Florida, may be emerging as America's book banning capital. Public schools in that county are yanking 55 books off library shelves ahead of the new school year.

The books include a Judy Blume novel, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, and a novel about a victim of human trafficking.

This follows a similar ban in Hillsborough County, where the school superintendent was quoted as saying, "When our '25-26 school year starts, I want to be assured that there is absolutely zero, none, zero inappropriate material in our libraries."

Why are we bringing this up? It's because these are big, urban counties that everyone acts like are so sophisticated. They're not small Rust Belt burgs or Montana farming counties. Broward has more people than Hillsborough, and in most of recent history has probably been the more authoritarian of the two on most major issues. Naturally, Kamala Harris won Broward by 17%, which suggests that the Democrats have become as much of a right-wing authoritarian party as the Republicans.

Urban sophisticates claim to be so liberal, yet they're out there burning books.

Gentrification. Bringing book bans to a city near you.