Is Freakonomics Driving Unemployment?

Well, probably not. But at least one person has lost her job — albeit not an actual full-time, paying job — in a fracas over Freakonomics and other books.
A few years back, a school-board member in suburban Chicago named Leslie Pinney wanted to pull nine books from the high school’s approved reading list. Among them were Freakonomics, The Things They Carried, and Beloved.
She was recently voted out of her position.
(Hat tip: Peter Duffer)