14-04-2025
Expelled From the Navy: 381 Banned Books
Measles Vaccines Work
Slashing the E.P.A.
A Cost to Farmers
Leaders, Rise Up Image Credit... AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
To the Editor:
Re 'Angelou's 'Caged Bird' Is Out, but Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Stays; 381 Books Are Banned From Naval Academy' (front page, April 12):
My grandfather was Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The United States Naval Academy's library was named in his honor in 1973. My family was proud to attend the dedication.
He would be appalled by the removal of books by authors like Maya Angelou from its shelves — as am I and are his great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. He was a humble, honorable, intelligent and supportive leader who was honored and loved by everyone he came into contact with.
We are all ashamed to hear that books such as 'Mein Kampf' have been left on the shelves while others were removed.
Thank you to The New York Times for featuring this story!
Sarah Nimitz Smith
Boston
To the Editor:
Kudos to The Times for reporting that the U.S. Naval Academy has banned and removed 381 books from its library, clearly demonstrating ideological censorship in promotion of the Trump administration's assault on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
One of the first steps a totalitarian regime takes is to control what citizens may read and what information is available to them from print and electronic media. State control of information is nothing more than propaganda.
Should George Orwell's novel '1984' be renamed '2025'?
Robert D. Greenberg
Bethesda, Md.
To the Editor:
If President Trump's censorship team did not sweep up Ray Bradbury's novel 'Fahrenheit 451' when it raided the Naval Academy's library (it apparently did not), it had better get back there before some innocent academy student finds the book and learns how censorship, book banning and book burning poison democracy and freedom.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.
Thank you for your patience while we verify access.
Already a subscriber? Log in.
Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
