William F. Buckley Jr.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/19/2021
  

  When a Right-Wing Attack on Textbooks Was Stopped

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  A McCarthy-era attack on a leading civics textbook fell short because of both organized resistance and the unpopularity of the ideas behind the ban. Supporters of academic freedom today can potentially draw on both of those elements, too.