QUESTIONS

The original group that formed Accountable Publishing Inc consisted of Paul Fenn, Christopher Britt, John Cutler, Julia Peters, Mark Raymond and John Sosnowski. Of that group, Fenn, Britt and Peters are still involved. Accountable Publishing Inc. has published the work of Eduardo Subirats, Charles Schultz, William R. Baker, and others, as well as the art of Anita Pantin and Sebastian Alvarez, apart from the founding members.

Accountable Publishing Inc. is a small independent publisher in Massachusetts, founded in 1993. We publish writings on politics, political theory, and history, as well as art. Our first publications starting in 1993 were America in Decline, followed by Deep Style (1995) and Why Are We Losing Our Freedom? (1997). In 2018 we published Spectacle of Enlightenment by philosopher Eduardo Subirats, historian Christopher Britt Arredondo, and political theorist and activist Paul Fenn.

The Wry Maker is a broad sheet newspaper sold in pay news boxes in the downtown area of Northampton, Massachusetts, and available by subscription on this web site. Mediarchy is the web version of our newspaper, which is to be found at https://mediarchy.org and opens our Mediarchy page on the Accountable Publishing Inc. web site at https://accountablepublishing.com/blog

Knowledge is in a crisis. The media have lost public confidence. The political parties have lost popularity, and elected officials are not trusted by many of the people. A chaos reigns, but also a silence. Thought is absent. All seek to influence: propaganda. results. As citizens, we must find our feet in some way, to identify some foundation, some principles, upon which to start anew. Accountable Publishing has always sought to encourage people to participate in democratic self-government through a principled, knowledge-based rather than influence-based approach to historical, political and technical knowledge. Our publications seek hard truths rather than consensus builders. We abandon the reader to authorial rage rather than appealing to his prejudices or protecting him from perceived evils. We encourage a sense of the reader's responsibility for "problems" rathan than pointing the finger, but when finger-pointing is needed, so be it. Above all we are suspicious of the good vs. evil types, understanding the problems of history, particularly as it relates to democratic institutions, as being the result of our understanding and knowledge, rather than archetypal moral or human failings. We seek to confront the problems of political thought head-on, not quick fixes, compromises or demonizations.

We accept anything. Writing includes any form of nonfiction writing. Art of any kind from photography to drawings, paintings, images of sculpture, digital art, and video.

Yes. It is 36 inches high and 42 inches wide. That's larger than the old British South African broadsheet newspapers in the old days of the per sheet newspaper tax, when they had an incentive to print larger pages. We think newspapers have shrunk too much, so we picked a huge format to pack in more writing per page. We print this newspaper ourselves, in house, in Massachusetts.