Assessing threats to freedom

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: June 17, 2003| Author: MICHAEL KINSLEY | Copyright information

Assessing threats to freedom

By MICHAEL KINSLEY

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

We Americans are a freedom-loving people. Or so we like to think. Other peoples are freedom-loving too, we recognize. But, looking around the world, we suspect Europeans such as the Germans and the French of being a bit too eager to salute. Asians are conformists, we feel. Africans go from one military coup to the next, and Latin Americans aren't long past a similar habit. In America, though, we have a ...

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