Problem with freedom—for those who don’t like it much, whether it be 18th Century European monarchs, 20th Century communists, or 21st-Century “progressives”—is that it makes people, well, free
I write a lot about liberty in this column. I’m for it, by the way. I like liberty, and I’m proud of the United States and Canada (my birth country and my adopted country) for being at the forefront of a struggle for liberty that has led to 90 nations today being considered “free,” “mostly free,” or “moderately free” by the Heritage Foundation / Wall Street Journal combined report, “Index of Economic Freedom.”
