18 January 2021
Book burning has not historically been considered an anti-fascist gesture. But in the wake of the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by crazed Trump supporters, perhaps that's set to change.
This is the news that Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who indulged Trump's conspiracy theories about the election being ‘stolen', has had his book deal with Simon & Schuster terminated. It might not be a book-burning per se, but it's certainly the 21st-century, polite-society equivalent of it.
