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Our new number-crunching on reading banned books

New laws restrict what professors can teach

Bringing tactics from the war on terror to America’s backyard

States that are home to a third of Americans could soon allow it

But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain

It is not just “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and works by Ayn Rand