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Robert P. Jones reports that his book White Too Long has been removed from holdings of the prestigious library of the US Naval Academy. He writes:

"This defilement of a respected academic institution by those who are waging an outright assault on higher education is, disturbingly, the goal. Honor and integrity are inconvenient stumbling blocks on the road to absolute power."


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whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-whi

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones · My Book, "White Too Long," Banned from US Naval AcademyBy Robert P. Jones
William Lindsey :toad:

"To create a new American authoritarianism, Trump and Hegseth must invert our most cherished values, maligning truth-telling as divisive ideology and censoring critical scholarship in the name of freedom of speech."


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"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."

~ Tiffany Hsu


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nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technol

The head of the National Archives, which has been described as “the custodian of America’s collective memory,” was fired by President Trump in February.
The New York Times · The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of ItBy Tiffany Hsu