Number of Utah teenagers who will not be able to read Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” or “Forever...” by Judy Blume now that those books have been banned from all public school libraries: Zero.
Number of Utah teenagers who will familiarize themselves with public libraries, bookstores and Amazon in order to read “Oryx and Crake,” “Forever…” or any of the other books that have been, or will be, removed from their schools: Many.
Benefit to Utah teenagers from a few public officials making war on hugely popular authors, distracting us all from overcrowded, underfunded schools with no nurses, too few counselors, too much racism and disappointing test scores: None. (Except for the unintended consequences described in the previous paragraph.)
Number of news articles and online journals around the world pointing out how afraid of literature and of their own children Utah’s leaders are, making us a global laughing stock just when we should be basking in the glow of winning the 2034 Winter Olympics: Too many.
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