Against Liberty

Everything is not a matter of opinion and all opinions are not equal. In the US, we frame all policy arguments in terms of liberty, and since we don’t teach critical thought, who wins the framing dispute wins the argument.

Public Domain photo courtesy National Park Service

My 85-year-old mother in law had her life saved by the excesses of the nanny state that made an elderly woman pay more for a car with a bunch of air bags. You can’t think of air bags at my age without thinking of…