The town library is not required to carry every book. Librarians make curation decisions; that is what we pay them for. It is still a tragedy when small groups

The town library is not required to carry every book. Librarians make curation decisions; that is what we pay them for. It is still a tragedy when small groups of activist Puritanical community members get enough political leverage to remove the books they don’t like. The reason it’s a tragedy is not unrelated to “free speech.”