If they do it would explain a lot of poll results, not to mention election returns. “Freedom is not ‘just another word for nothin’ left to lose,’ as Janice Joplin famously sang,” Vigen Guroian, a professor of theology at Loyola College in Maryland, writes. “Nor is freedom the liberty of the individual to do whatever pleases him so long as no one gets hurt, as so many of my college students honestly believe.”
“But many, many Americans embrace this highly privatized and hedonistic notion of freedom.”
