Since it was established in 1967, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has championed the rights of library users to seek and receive information on all subjects from all points of view without restriction and without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by others.

Editor Kate Burns has compiled compelling essays and counter essays that survey the history of censorship. Readers will look at how the arguments have both changed and remained constant over time, and will be fascinated by the way moral questions remain fundamentally consistent.

In BANNED BOOK CLUB, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading.

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Free porn. The phrase conjures images of search engine scams, computer viruses and spam emails. It also hints at an important debate--not over cost-free porn, per se, but over a regulation-free internet.

In No Apologies, Katherine Brodsky argues that it' s time for principled individuals to hit the unmute button and resist the authoritarians among us who name, shame, and punish.