A long list of who’s-who in the progressive elite continues to fearmonger about so-called “banned books.” Big names from former First Lady Jill Biden to MS NOW anchor Rachel Maddow would have you believe concerned parents are ushering in a new Dark Age in which learning is forbidden. This scary story falls apart under the least scrutiny.

Across the country, parents are starting to notice what is in the school libraries, and they are rightly shocked. The internet has dozens of videos of parents reading aloud passages from books pulled off the shelves in their children’s schools. From sexually explicit content to political propaganda, what parents are finding is disturbing. One mother was confused and concerned when the school librarian sent her daughter home with multiple books about becoming transgender. Some of the material is so inappropriate that parents have been forbidden from reading it aloud at school board meetings, with one dad having his mic cut off. If the books are too objectionable for the school board meeting, why are librarians picking them and sending them home with children?

When parents — and lawful taxpayers — sound the alarm and demand the removal of these books, they are not “banning” educational material. This exercise of civic responsibility is not censorship. All the theatrical panic over “banned” books is nothing more than an effort to undermine parents’ legitimate concerns. To be clear: the progressive radicals refuse to protect innocent minors from........

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