Opinion | I witnessed brutal censorship in Iran. We should all take U.S. book bans as a warning.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : While teaching in Iran, I became vividly aware of how important this is.
52% : For I can tell you: Book bans are canaries in coal mines -- indicators of the direction in which a society is moving.
43% : That line often came to mind when I was living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, every time the regime closed a bookstore or a publishing house, every time it censored, banned, jailed or even killed authors.
36% : Opinion: My father told me why even children need to learn about terrible things: So that we don't let them happen againIt is alarming to think that American communities in 2022 are actively seeking to deprive people of the reading experiences for which my students in Iran paid such a heavy price.
34% : I'm aware that the United States is not Iran.

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