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Os Guinness: Can Freedom Last Forever?

Socrates in the City

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The Golden Triangle of Freedom

The framers believed that freedom required virtue. The second leg of the triangle was faith in a higher power. But today, this belief has been abandoned by many Americans. John Avlon: Freedom requires order and restraint but self-restraint is undermined when it flourishes. He says we need to re-explore their understanding of antidotes to decline of freedom.

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