“tinyredcheck” I recommend reading the op/ed piece in today’s New York TImes, by Brandeis history 
of America’s Founding Ideas.” Prof. Fischer notes that historically the words liberty
and freedom have different origins: “liberty meant privileges of independence; freedom
referred to rights of belonging.” The piece concludes:
“The catch, of course, is that people become more truly free only when the
central ideas are respected: liberty as the rights of individual independence,
freedom in the rights of collective belonging. Many on the right and left
continue to call for one idea without the other, but the strongest ground is
in the center, where they come together.
“People across the globe will continue to create new combinations of liberty
and freedom, with an inexhaustible fertility of invention. These visions are
profoundly different from one another, but they are all part of one great
historical process that is more open and free than any one idea of liberty
or freedom has ever been, or even wished to be.”
in a post that wonders whether the Janet Jackson Super Bowl episode was about sexism
or prudishness. She takes feminists to task for giving up on the sexual predation issue
that the test of one’s principles is whether you apply them to yourself and your allies, not
whether you use them to club your enemies.
Raise your hand if you saw far too much of that “cool” Mustang ad during
Ann Althouse asked a very good question yesterday, “who cares about feminism?”,