While world leaders are increasingly saying out loud that the postwar liberal world order is dead, the ruling classes in the Global North have an answer for what will come to replace it: fascism. Will they be able to implement their vision?
A guide to standing up to book bans and beyond, and how to protect and strengthen public education in Canada
Jody Mason
Jody Mason is a Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Her research examines how the book and associated ideas about literacy and self-improvement have helped to elaborate Canada’s settler-colonial logics, both domestically and internationally. Her third book, Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, was published by McGill Queen’s University Press in 2026.

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