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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
« Readers are presented with fewer books that espouse unusual, quirky, offbeat, or politically risky ideas, as well as books from new and unproven authors. This impoverishes America’s marketplace of ideas. One wonders if Common Sense
would have found a publisher in the current environment.»
Since when has any mainstream publisher been the first publisher of unusual, quirky, offbeat, or politically risky ideas?
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Not in living memory. These days the internet is home to subversive thinking.
(Not that you'd expect those self-important fossils to notice.)
But the timing and source of the screed is fully, considering;
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...ted-cruzs-bio/
Only approved thought gets by the gatekeepers of bestsellerdom.
