It’s easy to think that politics has no place in the production of reference materials and that objective reference works are by nature apolitical. Yes, solid reference sources tend to work against ideologically and rhetorically-based thinking and in favor of fact-based reasoning and questioning, that is true, but one should not conclude from that than an apolitical position is the result.
Case in point: the role of a Greek-Macedonian Dictionary (and attempts to destroy it) in the fight for and against Macedonian statehood….
