I’ve got an article in today’s WSJ on the decision by Fairfax County to yank some classics off the bookshelves to make room for best-selling potboilers. Key line: “There’s a fine line between an institution that aims to edify the public and one that merely uses tax dollars to subsidize the recreational habits of bookworms.”

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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