George Ayoub: Letting them read ‘The Vanities of October’

By: George Ayoub

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: October 12, 2026

Words: 794

Last Updated: 5 days, 23 hours ago


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Lost in the din of a presidential visit to Nebraska, the ongoing glut of political campaign ads, a slew of prediction market come-ons and the sports world’s busiest month was Banned Books Week, which readers from bibliophiles to the casual celebrate annually.

While I do not play the prediction markets but am an avid sports fan and a voter, it was the president’s stopover that caught my attention. For the wrong reason. That’s …

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