In Italy, the pope decides what books may be read; in Austria, the emperor decides what books may be written; but we are more degraded than the subject of pontiff or Cæsar, if we are to be told what topics we may discuss.
Mann critiques the control of discourse in other countries, asserting that the U.S. should not follow suit.
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