Today in Dystopia: Burning books for Israel, burning books for AI

Filed by Elara Myst

 Caitlin JohnstoneAug 20, 2026Reading by Tim Foley:SubscribeI’ve been putting out more and more of these “today in dystopia” write-ups because our society is plunging into iron-fisted authoritarianism and AI-induced idiocracy so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up with how it’s unfolding day by day without shoveling multiple stories into a single essay.❖Today in dystopia they’re really going after books. A library in Sydney has removed the book “How to Sell a ...