IW: Libraries are not some socialist institution that needs to be drowned in Grover Norquist’s bathtub. They were established in this country by uber-capitalist Ben Franklin. And that sentiment was conitnued by the robber barons such as Andrew Carnegie who said: “There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public […]
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