In the Age of Trump, the U.S.A. has grown accustomed to, indeed, has come to expect frauds. The latest AARP Bulletin is devoted to frauds wrought on the elderly, though the giant letters on the cover “FRAUD 2024” made me think, at first, that the entire issue was devoted to Donald Trump.

Another kind of fraud is being perpetrated by people who busy themselves about libraries, about forcing removal of books that they find offensive. They remind me of Prof. Harold Hill’s great sales pitch in The Music Man. With a slight alteration it could be adopted by these bookburners: “You’ve got trouble. It begins with T, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for BOOK.”