Today’s episode is something different — an essay written and narrated by Jennifer. It’s about growing up believing America was the good guy, watching that belief crack, and trying to hold on to hope anyway.If you’ve ever looked at someone you love and wondered how they became a stranger, this one’s for you.We’ll be back next week with the usual literary troublemaking and dystopian nonsense.

Today’s episode is something different — an essay written and narrated by Jennifer. It’s about growing up believing America was the good guy, watching that belief crack, and trying to hold on to hope anyway. If you’ve ever looked at someone you love and wondered how they became a stranger, this one’s for you. We’ll be back next week with the usual literary troublemaking and dystopian nonsense.

The America That Raised Me is Gone

Love banned books? Hate censorship? Same. You’re our kind of people. Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned in the first place. Each season, we tackle a new banned book, reading it chapter by chapter and asking: What made someone clutch their pearls and scream, "BAN IT!"? (Spoiler: It’s rarely what you’d expect.) One thing is clear—the people banning these books often haven’t read them. While we uncover some eyebrow-raising moments, nothing truly justifies censorship. Join us—and our listeners, "The Scary Book People"—as we explore the strange, hilarious, and sometimes baffling world of banned books. Past seasons have featured classics like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz,&nbsp; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and 1984 by George Orwell. This season, we’re diving into Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It's a dystopia built on pleasure, not fear. People are engineered, drugged, and distracted into obedience, and they’re taught to love the system that controls them. It’s funny, creepy, and disturbingly familiar. And like all great banned books, it makes you question the world you're living in. By reading these books, we ask big questions: Why are banned books important? What does “banned” mean? What does “challenged” mean? How do book bans affect students? Are book bans constitutional? Come hang out with us and have some laughs while we dig into the drama behind banned books—you might even learn something cool along the way!

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Love banned books? Hate censorship? Same. You’re our kind of people. Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned in the first place. Each season, we tackle a new banned book, reading it chapter by chapter and asking: What made someone clutch their pearls and scream, "BAN IT!"? (Spoiler: It’s rarely what you’d expect.) One thing is clear—the people banning these books often haven’t read them. While we uncover some eyebrow-raising moments, nothing truly justifies censorship. Join us—and our listeners, "The Scary Book People"—as we explore the strange, hilarious, and sometimes baffling world of banned books. Past seasons have featured classics like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz,  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and 1984 by George Orwell. This season, we’re diving into Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It's a dystopia built on pleasure, not fear. People are engineered, drugged, and distracted into obedience, and they’re taught to love the system that controls them. It’s funny, creepy, and disturbingly familiar. And like all great banned books, it makes you question the world you're living in. By reading these books, we ask big questions: Why are banned books important? What does “banned” mean? What does “challenged” mean? How do book bans affect students? Are book bans constitutional? Come hang out with us and have some laughs while we dig into the drama behind banned books—you might even learn something cool along the way!

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