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The Paul Wells Show

Ira Wells on book banning

Feb 26, 2025
41:31

Writer, professor and cousin-of-Paul Ira Wells was concerned about the rise of censorship coming from both sides of the political spectrum. So he wrote a book about it, diving into the history of people trying to control what you read.

That book is called On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy. He talks to Paul about the personal incident that sent him down this path, how the censors justify their actions, new threats to books in the digital age, and much more. 

Season 3 of The Paul Wells Show is sponsored by McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.

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