“Banned” books: The misdirected fight against fascism
By Easton Martin | November 11, 2025
If you have entered a bookstore at any time in the last five years, you have likely come across what many refer to as a “banned books list.” These are books that, for one reason or another, usually due to graphic sexual content, have been removed from school libraries or restricted from being marketed toward younger audiences.
The left has seized upon conservatives’ desire to protect children and used it to create buzz around so-called “banned” books. It often appears that progressives almost fantasize about books being prohibited, cosplaying as members of a resistance under a fascist dictatorship.
So-called banned books like The Handmaid’s Tale encourage this behavior, with women dressing as handmaids, donning a red robe and white bonnet, and protesting perceived oppression of women.
Recently, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, stated on the program 60 Minutes that, “The government put out an edict to all school boards saying that they couldn’t have any books in the library that had either direct or indirect sex.”
While the left imagines itself as standing against modern-day Nazis, many people recognize that books with highly sexual themes are not appropriate reading material for children. It is also deeply ironic that women protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade while wearing handmaid costumes, given that abortion is one of the most devastating tools of mass killing and oppression in human history.
During the years when Roe v. Wade stood, there were an estimated 63 million abortions. We can assume that roughly half of those children were female, meaning that more than 30 million women were killed in less than 50 years. As a society, we would do well to stop cosplaying pretend fascism and instead begin fighting for the millions who have been ritualistically sacrificed on the altar of convenience, under the banner of “rights.”
