The New York Times recently posed a question that should never have needed asking in a free country: “Should We Read ‘Huck Finn’?” Their answer, wrapped in the usual hand-wringing about “slurs,” “job-endangering conversations” and the delicate feelings of students, amounts to a soft surrender. Educators are quietly dropping Mark...
The New York Times recently posed a question that should never have needed asking in a free country: “Should We Read ‘Huck Finn’?” Their answer, wrapped in the usual hand-wringing about “slurs,” “job-endangering conversations” and the delicate feelings of students, amounts to a soft surrender. Educators are quietly dropping Mark…
