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ABOVE: The Thinkers Club was published in 1819 and depicts the effects of the Carlsbad Decrees on the German Confederation. The cartoon depicts eight professors muzzled and prevented from speaking. A plaque above them reads “The most important question of today’s meeting: how long will thinking be allowed to us?” LEFT: Work from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker.