Unfortunately there have been far, far too many cases of schools, school districts, universities and colleges, law firms, businesses, etc. chickening out and simply caving to this administration. I have a couple of English teacher friends in a NC school district with a good many years under their belt, and they told me that they weren't able to assign their usual summer reading for next year's students because the district is quietly, unofficially "looking at" the novels that are traditionally assigned and hasn't granted approval to use them this year. The novels they mentioned that they usually assign for summer reading are To Kill a Mockingbird and The Life of Frederick Douglass, but there are others that are also being "examined." They told me they have taught both novels for years with no trouble. The idea that these two novels are suddenly un-American and offensive to anyone pretty much says it all about where we are today as a nation. Anybody who says that this administration, and MAGA Nation in general, isn't creating real fear and suppression of free speech and thought simply hasn't been paying attention.