There is, however, one great cause for hope in e-publishing, at least for the time being. For very little money, it is now possible to publish good books, old and new, books that would fill today's book editors with horror. If I wanted, for example, to publish a translated volume of Charles Maurras, whom Eliot always saluted as his master, it would not be a major undertaking. If an American poet wanted to pick up the great tradition of sonnet-writing abandoned since the modernist revolution, he could probably find a bigger readership than he would gain from an academic press's print run of a few hundred copies.
If the tiny remnant of serious writers and editors can make use of e-publishing to find an audience for real literature and for ideas that have been taken off the table by the intelligentsia, a literate and intelligent counterculture might quickly emerge, one that does not depend on the approval of people like Tina Brown and the Podhoretzes. (10)
Guerilla campaign for the restoration of Christian culture.
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