Books, censorship, and anti-intellectualism in schools

The book plays an outsized role in intellectual life. Beyond a correspondence between books and ideas, it is often implied that only certain types of books are considered to be intellectual. Because there is a taken-for-granted correspondence between reading books and the life of the mind, research on intellectualism often focuses on how much individuals read. Here, Knox focuses on people who attempt to censor books (called challengers) in public libraries and schools,