Burning Down the Mythic Past: Or, Why We Shouldn’t Censor “Uncomfortable” Parts of Our History

Joe Forrest
6 min readJan 31, 2022

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Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite short story writers and novelists. And Fahrenheit 451 is widely considered his masterwork. Published in 1953, the novel depicts a dystopian future in which books are illegal and no one can read.

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Joe Forrest

Joe Forrest writes on the intersection of faith, culture, secularism, and politics.