SYSK Selects: How Book Banning Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you want to control the masses, control what they read. After all, books are seeds that germinate new points of view. As a result, the struggle against banning books is contentious and continual. Learn more about banning books in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen how bookbanging
0:36.9	works, which is an episode we released all the way back in 2012.
0:41.4	But it's as pertinent today, sadly, as it was back then.
0:45.0	I hope you feel inspired to go out and read a book that somebody didn't want you to read
0:50.2	because you can.
0:52.2	Enjoy!
0:57.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:06.7	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:08.4	I'm Josh Clark.
1:09.6	With me is Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:14.0	Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
1:16.2	Did my little best anchor man move?
1:18.2	Yeah.
1:19.2	Getting the papers all in order, reading the prompt.
1:22.9	Why would that be great?
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