When I hear the word “books” I think of great literary works like The Last of the Mohicans or the Lord of the Rings trilogy, full of noble heroes who lay down their lives for others, or disturbing exposés like The Real Lincoln or Marx & Satan. I certainly recall haunting dystopian fiction like 1984, and philosophical gems like Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness and Bastiat’s The Law. And, when I think of book bans, I think of the ritualistic bonfires of the far-left Nazi regime, which sought to destroy (in Joseph Goebbels’s own words) the “intellectualism” of men like Ernest Hemingway and women like Helen Keller.
