Last week was Banned Book Week in Washington, whose ostensible purpose is to celebrate freedom of speech. So why, at Borders Books downtown, could Dinesh D’Souza’s The End of Racism not be found?
When a clerk was asked to locate it, he replied, “Yeah, we have it. It’s under Nonsense.” After enjoying his own quip, he sent the buyer to Ethnic Studies and then to New Releases. No luck. “I know we got it in the other day,” the clerk said. The next day, four other clerks failed to locate the controversial book, which has a first printing of 75,000. Banned Book Week, indeed.
