Documenting the Surge

Abstract

When the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (JIFP) first started publishing in 2016, the United States was in a radically different political environment. Barack Obama was president and there was little thought given to a pandemic. The publication of this seventh volume comes after the election of Donald Trump, the first time the US has not had a peaceful transfer of executive power, and a pandemic that has killed more than 6.42 million people worldwide and more than 1 million in the US. Along with these huge shifts in our political and social structures, we have seen an incredible increase in the number of book challenges and bannings across the states.