Too Much Freedom or Too Many Rules?

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It’s easy to love freedom when your compatriots aren’t exercising it too vigorously. By the same token, anarchic times foster a preference for the benefits of social order. Where does that leave us? We live in a peculiar era in which freedom (in some respects) and constraint (in other respects) are both at a high pitch. (Have sex in public if you like, but don’t dare light up that post-coital cigarette!) As such, Americans are prone to conflicted attitudes on the tension between a love of personal liberty and a distaste for other people’s self-expressive excesses.

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