February 9, 2001
The Fate of Freedom; Infertility; Cyber-Meetings; the Value of Sports
"Freedom" continues to occupy as central a place as ever in our political vocabulary, but it has been largely appropriated by libertarians and conservatives of one kind or another, from advocates of unimpeded market economics to armed militia groups insisting that the right to bear arms is the centerpiece of American liberty. The dominant constellation of definitions seems to consist of a series of negations -- of government, of social responsibility, of a common public culture, of
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