Trying to control what kids read is a fool’s errand. Like Comstockery and Prohibition, it aims to make human beings into little saints. Ain’t never gonna happen.

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Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

A new, self-imposed Iron Curtain blocks any challenging literature from making its way into the hands of the young and woke.

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