Google hopes to scan some of the largest library collections in the world and make them searchable online. This ambitious goal is intensely controversial. Some contend that “Google Book Search” could be a valuable research resource and boost book sales, while others believe it violates copyright laws. The...

Google's plan to digitize some of the world's largest library collections and make them searchable online has proven controversial.

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How did Ronald Reagan see that liberalism's lack of a limiting principle would be its undoing, especially since the most severe derelictions of liberalism lay in the future?