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Veronica Arreola found out that a children\u2019s book she authored was among the most banned in the United States from an unlikely source: People magazine. \u201cSomeone I had a date with sent me a text of a screenshot and was like, \u2018Is this you? And is your book banned?\u2019 She sent me a link to the story in People, which was about the rise of nonfiction books being banned, and a link to a PEN America report that listed the top 29 books banned in the 2024\u20132025 school year. And my book was on that list. I was like, this is bizarre. It\u2019s bizarre that it\u2019s being banned, and this is a bizarre way of finding out.<\/em><\/p>\n

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No one thought Pete Hegseth was spending his time paging through a towering pile of books looking for subversive content; the DoD list was simply a result of challenging any book that mentioned justice, or activism, or rainbows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Arreola\u2019s book, \u201cJ Is for Justice! an Activism Alphabet,\u201d was published in 2023 by Sunbird Books. The small, colorful board book isn\u2019t the typical banned book, mostly because parents are usually either doing or directing the reading. It introduces simple, appropriate words for things associated with activism, but not only with activism; \u201cQ is for quilt\u201d pictures the AIDS Memorial Quilt, \u201cF is for folding chair,\u201d nods to Shirley Chisholm\u2018s quote \u201cIf they don\u2019t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.\u201d \u201cI wanted this book to be a way that adults could have difficult conversations with kids. Kids see things, and they want to know why,\u201d says Arreola, a Chicago activist (and, full disclosure, a longtime friend and colleague). \u201cThe example I\u2019ve been using is that when my daughter was 5, she recognized that we had homeless encampments in one part of the city, and there were a lot of empty buildings in our community. She was like, \u2018Why don\u2019t we let homeless people live in those empty apartments?\u2019 It\u2019s hard to explain [why] to a 5-year-old, [especially] while we, as a society, are trying to teach them to be kind and share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021, when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list. The classics of the banned-book genre remained \u2014\u00a0\u201cBrave New World,\u201d \u201cAnimal Farm,\u201d \u201cBeloved\u201d \u2014 but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make informed choices about their sexuality or their mental health. It quickly became clear that these challenges were not ones initiated by individual parents (only about 3% are) but were large-scale initiatives organized\u00a0by pressure groups and anti-woke crusaders like Moms for Liberty and No Left Turn in Education \u2014 and, in the case of \u201cJ is for Justice,\u201d the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DoD runs the schools at military bases for [children of] enlisted people, officers, diplomats,\u201d Arreola explains. \u201cLast year, when everyone was paying attention to DOGE and all the science grants they were cancelling, they were also doing a list of books to ban.\u201d The process for both was the same: Arreola, on a recent episode of WBEZ\u2019s \u201cIn the Loop.\u201d called it \u201ca Control-F ban.\u201d \u201cThey were searching keywords like \u2018diversity,\u2019 \u2018gender,\u2019 \u2018DEI\u2019 \u2014 they had a whole list.\u201d Obviously, no one thought Pete Hegseth was spending his time paging through a towering pile of books looking for subversive content; the DoD list was simply a result of challenging any book that mentioned justice, or activism, or rainbows.<\/p>\n

The shift from banning individual books based on content to banning them based on words, as well as the growing number of challenges to nonfiction books, reflect that book bans are now systematized efforts to fundamentally change what people know and how they know it. PEN found that \u201c92% of censorship attempts in 2025 were initiated by pressure groups and decision makers swayed by them.\u201d Noting the growing number of bans on textbooks, history books, biographies, reference texts and more, its report references \u201cA strain of anti-intellectualism\u2026[that] mirrors the broader political attack on facts and knowledge and the skepticism and devaluation of, and disdain for, experts and expertise\u2014tactics long associated with the rise of authoritarian regimes and intended to sow distrust in democratic institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there is the rise in censorship efforts in higher education. \u201cThere has been a steadily growing effort to expand a web of political and ideological control over the higher-education sector,\u201d says Jonathan Friedman, the managing director of PEN America\u2019s Free Expression programs. \u201cMore than half of U.S. college and university students now study in a state with at least one law or policy restricting what can be taught or how campuses can operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with book bans in K-12 schools, challenges in higher ed began ramping up in the last half-decade; on campuses, changes to and restrictions on course content, lecture topics and reading materials increasingly take the form of what PEN calls \u201cindirect censorship\u201d \u2014 \u201cefforts to exert ideological and political control over the operation of universities and colleges as a whole.\u201d In other words, these efforts are about more than conservative boogeymen like critical race theory and DEI, but about constraining facts already in evidence \u2014 not unlike attempts to remove mentions of enslavement and climate change at national parks and museums.<\/p>\n

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The shift from banning individual books based on content to banning them based on words, as well as the growing number of challenges to nonfiction books, reflect that book bans are now systematized efforts to fundamentally change what people know and how they know it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The prevailing argument for removing books written for children and young adults from school libraries is that parents deserve to have a say in what their children read \u2014 a rationale that would seem to fall apart in higher education. But a recent case at the University of Nebraska, where the textbook for a Human Sexuality class was challenged on the basis of its allegedly \u201cdisgusting\u201d images, suggests that the goalposts move as needed. In higher ed, Friedman says, the argument for restriction or outright removal of educational materials is still nominally about protection. \u201cIn this case, [it] focused on the appropriateness of the text and its images \u2014 though it hardly seems inappropriate that a nursing student\u2019s college-level course textbook [has depictions of] human genitalia.\u201d (We can assume that, likewise, no students are being strong-armed into taking a course on Human Sexuality.)<\/p>\n

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Another alarming trend is that challenges are increasingly likely to come directly from government officials. PEN is seeing more cases in which government operatives intervene in academic affairs \u201cto a surprising degree,\u201d says Friedman, adding, \u201cIt is highly unusual for governors [or] senators to get involved in rather mundane academic curricular decisions.\u201d But after an Indiana senator took issue with a lecture by a college professor, her contract wasn\u2019t renewed. The complaints that led to the University of Nebraska\u2019s textbook challenge appears to have originated with a former staffer of Nebraska governor Jim Pillen.<\/p>\n

At the college level, Friedman explains, \u201cExplicitly directing professors and universities not to teach about race or gender didn\u2019t really work [because of] protections for academic freedom.\u201d To achieve their goals, the plan is now \u201cto attack, weaken, and undermine the foundation of academic freedom first. That\u2019s why we increasingly see political efforts to undermine shared governance, abolish faculty senates, change tenure, or create new \u2018audits\u2019 of curricula.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alabama now gives the governing boards of universities leeway to exert control of the subjects taught there, and allows governing boards to fire tenured faculty for reasons including \u201cfailure to meet professional responsibilities\u201d or behavior that \u201cadversely affects\u201d a school. In other words, faculty can be fired for whatever infraction the school\u2019s governing board decides is a fireable one. (The University of Alabama and Auburn University are exempt, thanks to existing protection under the state\u2019s Constitution.)<\/p>\n

New laws in Tennessee, meanwhile, aim to undermine tenured faculty and prohibit student and faculty protest on campus. As with Alabama\u2019s law, they are worded vaguely enough that they can be applied to pretty much anything: One law\u2019s refusal to define \u201cmisconduct,\u201d along with its provision that tenured faculty no longer be allowed character references from or hearings before their peers, seems designed to undermine the meaning and distinction of tenure. \u201cTenure, shared governance and academic freedom make up a very important infrastructure,\u201d Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, recently told Inside Higher Ed, \u201cand if you look at the bills that have come out in the last three months, what you see is an attack on each one of those three pillars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Illinois was the first state in the nation to enact a \u201cFreedom to Read\u201d law that protects librarians and prohibits the removal of books from libraries on ideological grounds. The law was passed in 2023, 13 years after Chicago Public Schools, without explanation or warning, removed Marjane Satrapi\u2019s graphic novel autobiography \u201cPersepolis\u201d from classrooms and libraries, sparking a student movement against censorship. Eight other states, including California, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, have since passed similar legislation.<\/p>\n

And yet, the encroachment on academic freedom has become both more extreme and more inchoate. The chair of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s graduate program in art therapy, Savneet Talwar, was removed this past April after assigning the students in a course called \u201cCultural Dimensions in Art Therapy\u201d a case study sympathetic to Palestine. According to Hyperallergic,\u00a0Talwar directed her students to create a course of treatment for a hypothetical patient, \u201ca queer Arab woman who sympathized with pro-Palestinian protests and feared retaliation under the Trump administration.\u201d The next day, she was told by the school\u2019s provost that she was being put on leave effective immediately following a student complaint that the school believed \u201cthreatened immediate harm to the student or to others within our community.\u201d The school has yet to tell Talwar and her lawyer what the complaint actually alleged.<\/p>\n

As an activist, Arreola is probably the perfect person to stand up to book banning, but should she have to? In perusing board books similar to hers, I encountered no less than 5 titled \u201cJ is for Jesus,\u201d which, in theory, someone whose religion isn\u2019t Jesus-centered could complain doesn\u2019t belong in the children\u2019s section of a library. That it hasn\u2019t seems ironic, given that the Christian ideal of Jesus is in both word and deed a seeker of justice. Hypocrisy allows parents, or the DoD, or whomever, to target the book itself. But what allows these ban lists to flourish is that they are being produced at scale by organizations on the grounds of: Who\u2019s going to stop me?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can look at what\u2019s happening in this country right now and see that there don\u2019t seem to be rules,\u201d says Arreola. Those who have witnessed Donald Trump bulldoze the White House\u2019s East Wing, slap his name on the Kennedy Center and call for the heads of everyone from talk-show hosts and pop singers to museum curators and college presidents are learning that anything and everything can be a culture war \u2014 and, even more important, that objective truth is whatever a well-funded anti-woke advocacy group says it is. \u201cHistory is told through stories, and we do not agree on stories,\u201d Emily Knox, author of \u201cBook Banning in the 21st Century,\u201d told \u201cIn the Loop.\u201d In that case, Arreola \u2014 and the rest of us \u2014 need to make sure new stories are being written as fast as the current ones are erased.<\/p>\n

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