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the summer before my first year of college, my dad recommended me the book Woke Racism by John McWhorter, ... I was like, you know, I think this is stupid and racist and actually doesn't work. ... it led me to question the social support I had and ultimately helped me reject my transgender identity.

Listeners may know him because he wrote that bestseller How to Be an Anti-Racist.

Some of the other top books parents have worked to pull from schools are titled Lawn Boy, My Friend Dahmer, Out of Darkness, In the Dream House, The Hate You Give, Flamer, Looking for Alaska, Hopeless, The Handmaid's Tale, a picture book called Dim Sum for Everyone.

where he made a declaration that sounded like it was ripped straight from The Communist Manifesto, touting the warmth of collectivism over frigid individualism

the FTC said Amazon named its Prime cancellation process The Iliad, referring to, quote, Homer's epic about the long, arduous Trojan War.

the book of Jeremiah chapter 49 has a promise for Iran that God will restore its fortunes after it's been destroyed.

A pretty famous example is Catcher in the Rye. In that case, parents weren't keen on the profanity and the references to drinking and suicide, and it was seen by some people as kind of anti-family.

They point to books like Catcher in the Rye and say that books that address the gritty realities of life are engaging for young learners and inspire a love of reading.

Hunter's own book described this 7-Eleven as a regular haunt for crack dealers.

Her upcoming book is titled You Will Own Nothing.

I've seen people who are going out to buy my book, You'll Own Nothing, and telling them get the hard copy. You know, don't get the digital copy of it.

Recently, a Harvard English professor stated that her students struggle to read and comprehend Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. Those of us who are old, we read that in ninth grade.

She read me a passage from Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up From Slavery. The slave owner and his sons had mastered no special skill, no special industry. They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labor was not the proper thing for them. On the other hand, the slaves in many cases had mastered some handicraft and none were ashamed and few unwilling to labor.

The train service was made famous by Agatha Christie's 1934 novel, Murder on the Orient Express.

He's starred in Apollo 13, Of Mice and Men, and CSI.

I've formed this opinion after reading Abigail Schreier's book, Irreversible Damage.

And it's everything from over-medicalization, and what I mean by that is a child can show up and be autistic, a child can show up and have been incested or molested.

There could be a host of reasons the child is presenting in the way that they are, meaning gender dysphoria, and after two visits, it's like, okay, off to the endocrinologist.

And they're not getting treated for underlying issues where they may need very serious help.

You are in fact interrupting puberty, which is the stage of life where your brain is developing, your bones are developing, your organs are developing.

We're sterilizing these kids.

So you can take a 14 year old and tell them they're never going to have kids.

Well at 14, I didn't want kids.

Now I'm 50 and I have two of those savages that run my life.

I'm fine with adopting.

A lot of people don't want to adopt.

They want their own kids.

There's nothing wrong with that.

But a 14 year old can't comprehend that.

These kids can't have orgasms.

Does a child understand what this means?

I don't think so.

Their teeth are cracking.

They've got back problems.

Their bones are brittle.

It's very serious.

And I haven't even touched upon the host of other issues that she outlines here.

And by the way, if we look at people as far right as it goes, if you were to look at somebody like Charlie Kirk, even Charlie Kirk says, I'm just talking about transitioning children.

Adults can go with God.

So the reason for that is an adult's brain is developed and adult's bones are developed.

And while the counter argument is the whole point is not enduring puberty in the quote wrong body, I'm sorry to say, I think your brain development is more important.

In the cast review, she also points out that gender affirming care didn't actually resolve the angst and the mental anguish that these kids are struggling with in the vast majority of kids.

He wrote a brilliant book called The Parasitic Mind.

He said to me, gosh, I want to say a couple years ago, you have an obligation to say something.

You have no idea how fragile democracy actually is.

If you don't meet that responsibility, we will all pay for it individually and as a society.

they also added some passages, like in the book, The Witches, a character explains that witches wear wigs because they're bald. Well, Puffin has now added a line of dialogue that reads, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there are certainly nothing wrong with that.

Harry's memoir Spare is due out next month and it is reportedly even more sensational.

There's a book called The Wisdom of Crowds, and the idea there is that if you have a diverse group of people making independent decisions, that they can be smarter than any expert. And in that book, they give some examples. So the crowd usually performs better than the stock trader. There's an example of, well, who wants to be a millionaire? People can ask for a friend for an answer or they can ask the audience to answer.