We are living in a moment of unprecedented censorship. The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Mahmoud v. Taylor and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, coupled with Project 2025’s blueprint for a second Trump presidency, outline a perilous future. Together, they invite parents to structure class curricula based on their religion, empower governments to surveil what adults read online, and promise a return to cultural repression. States have an essential role to play as a bulwark against this attempted revival of McCarthyism, when America was not so great for a lot of people.

That is why New York’s Freedom to Read Act matters. The bill requires schools to maintain inclusive and diverse library collections and shields librarians from political pressure. It was passed by the state Legis

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