Book 'Em
December, 2004
We all know instinctively that what we read is nobody's damn business but our own--and it's certainly not the government's. The freedom to read what we choose and to choose what we read with no one looking over our shoulder is bound up with the freedom to think independently and critically. You cannot undermine one without crippling the other, and you cannot have a free society and a functioning democracy without both.The major task facing this country since 9/11 has been to prevent acts of terr...