The Banned Book Week’s homepage offers resources for a “Right to Read Night” intended to “engage local networks in the fight to read freely.” For them, this fight is a great existential struggle against authoritarianism. I can’t find a way to say this gently. The whole enterprise is ridiculous. And worse, anti-democratic.

There is no fight to read freely. Find one free adult in America who can’t read anything he wants to read. You can read “Mein Kampf.” You can read “The Communist Manifesto.” You can read the unabomber’s manifesto. You can read the worst porn and the most trivial, mind-rotting rubbish. You can read posts on X. You can read any freaking thing you want.

There are no banned books in America, in any way that word makes sense.

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