The health of a society can often be measured by the freedom of its books. Every society that has tried to control its people has started by controlling its books. And every society that has expanded freedom has done the opposite—it has expanded access to books. Because books are not simply objects. They are one of humanity’s most powerful technologies, machines for communication. Books allow ideas to travel across time. They allow imagination t…
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