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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/3eeef46c339e98c5 https://verfassungsblog.de/everyone-agrees-that-freedom-is-kind-of-swell/ Everyone Agrees That Freedom is Kind of Swell - Left-Wing Bookshops, Right-Wing Culture Wars, and the Liberal Mainstream in Between Steinbeis, Maximilian eng 2026-03-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Culture of Publishing Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis Liberalism culture war Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Left-wing bookshops applying for an award handed out by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture? Striving to be honoured by the German state for their service to the good, the true and the beautiful? Does the current Commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, now in hot water for his decision to strike those left-wing bookshops off the winners' list, even realise how amazing this is? Truly left-wing bookshops, mind you. Shelves crammed with the classics of revolutionary theory and practice. How much more disarmingly faithful in the virtues of liberal democracy can you be?