Dear Book Readers,

This week is banned books week. That means we read and honor books that have been censored, challenged, or banned in the past. Censorship is when a group keeps someone from expressing their views because they disagree with those views. Your individual good judgement and personal taste might sway you away from reading certain books, but we should never keep others from expressing their views or bar people from reading those views.

There are a lot of terrible ideas in the world, but as enlightened thinkers we know that the best way to silence bad ideas is to overwhelm them with good ideas. There will never be too many ideas and there will never be ideas that are too dangerous for human beings to ponder. They all get tossed into that messy and complex mix out of which some of our greatest human achievements grow.

Keep reading,

Mr. Heimbuck