I’m in Chicago today, hosting the American Library Association’s Great Chicago Readout, kicking off our celebration of Banned Books Week with authors of some of the top ten banned books of 2010. I look over the list of reasons for the challenges and bannings: religious perspective, homosexual content, sexual content, offensive language, suicide. Human things. Things the people who want to “take our country back” don’t want kids to talk about; human things the “conservative right” doesn’t think should be part of human education. Wow.