Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago

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In the name of parental rights, school boards and state governments have restricted certain books from being taught in classrooms or circulating in libraries, actions that critics condemn as modern “book banning.” Can parental concerns be respected without censorship?

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Assemblymember Ash Kalra, 25th District, California State Assembly
Allison Lee, Los Angeles director, PEN America
David Loy, legal director, First Amendment Coalition
Michael Meth, dean, San José State University Library
John McCabe (moderator), associate director and policy analyst, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University