Our little community newspaper arrived this week with fireworks on the front page, which means that we'll be hearing a lot about freedom and liberty during the next few days. Most of us will feel some moving sensation when that high A floats us up to "the land of the free-eee," be it goosebumps, lump in the throat, popped vocal cord. But if in that moment we were pressed to define our understanding of freedom, would we be able to give a coherent account of that fundamental category in the American experience?
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