Moral Panic to Authoritarian Control: How 1920s German Censorship to ‘Save Youth’ Contributed to the Nazi Rise

by Trevor Lyman | Jun 16, 2026 | History, Censorship

The Battle Against “Trash and Filth”: Germany’s Century-Long Struggle to Shield Youth from Mass Media In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rapid industrialization and revolutionary advances in printing technology democratized reading as never before. Cheap pulp...

School used AI to purge library of ‘inappropriate’ books including George Orwell’s 1984

by Trevor Lyman | Jun 15, 2026 | Censorship

Censorship and book banning in schools represent a dangerous assault on intellectual freedom, critical thinking, and the right of young people to engage with challenging ideas. In a shocking case from a Greater Manchester secondary school (reported by Index on...