Author Ryan Holiday went to give an address to the Naval Academy – until the military branch discovered that he would refer to the recent radical book ban of the Academy.
For years, holiday gives lectures about the virtues of stoicism – he organizes a podcast called The daily stoic – and this week intended to talk to the second -year students about the ‘theme of wisdom’. But the navy has canceled those plans an hour before it was ready, he said in a New York Times On Saturday.
Prior to his address, he sent his prepared slides, including a reference to the removal of 381 books by the Academy.
In January, President Donald Trump signed one executive order The termination of the “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, so that schools are asked to get books from classrooms that do not join the Trump agenda. Although the Naval Academy is a university, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth ordered the school in March to assess her books in the Nimitz library to ensure that it meets the president’s order.
On April 4, the Navy will have one press release Indication of the hundreds of books that have been removed. That contains list How you can be an anti -racist By Ibram X. Kendi and I know why the chopped bird sings By Maya Angelou.
According to Holiday, his reference to the book ban at the school “very concerned about reprisals if my speech seemed to flood the president’s order”. He was asked to remove them from his speech; He refused and it was canceled, he wrote.
The school “has made a schedule change that matches the mission to prepare Midshipmen for a career,” a navy spokesperson told the Time. “The Naval Academy is an apolitical institution.”
“I was not interested in embarrassing someone or discussing politically. I understand the enormous pressure they are among, especially the military employees, and I did not want to cause them problems,” wrote Holiday in the Op-ed. “However, I felt that it was essential to point out that pursuing wisdom is impossible without being concerned with (and challenging) uncomfortable ideas.”
He walked through some of his prepared remarks, including making the point that there was political pressure in the 1950s to get books from the shelves, but then President Dwight Eisenhower was then abandoned.
“My idea is that censorship and hiding nothing solves,” the president told Repenters shortly after his inauguration from 1953. Eisenhower then pointed to all the materials that were circulating before the Second World War that were unread, but perhaps could have helped anticipate the tragedies that were about to stop. “What I am talking about is that we train ourselves when we run a free government, and let’s [not] Be afraid of his weaknesses and his strength, “he said.
Adolf Hitler’s My fight Was not until the books drawn from the library, the holiday noticed. “No matter how horrible that book is, it should be accessible to scientists and students of history. However, this makes the removal of Maya Angelou’s I know why the chopped bird sings Inexplicable, “he wrote.” Whatever people think of dei, we are not talking about the writings of external enemies, but in many cases, art, serious scholarship and legitimate criticism of America’s past. ‘
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