Book banning and who is guilty of it has become a hot topic in recent months, but the right

end left have been accusing the other side of leading efforts to keep certain books

out of the classroom and off school library shelves for unjustifiable reasons.

For this episode of Morning Wire, we talk to Daily Wire Culture Reporter Megan Basham about

just what is meant by book banning, what kinds of books are being removed from school curriculum

and libraries, and how politics is driving this debate.

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ago, but at that time you didn't hear so much discussion about book banning or politics in general

in schools. I remember kids were reading the outsiders and that was seen as kind of edgy,

because it talks about gangs and underage drinking. When did this become such a major issue?

Well, according to a recent report from the American Library Association,

these calls to ban books have really ramped up in the last couple of years. So the ALA said it

tracked 729 requests to move a total of 1,597 titles from libraries and classrooms in 2021.

Now, those requests are called challenges and they saw 273 challenges to books in 2020

and 377 in 2019. So you'll notice that 2021 was a record high and that's a record high since the

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