Who is to blame for freedom's retreat?

Freedom Beats a Global Retreat

This has actually been true for awhile, now. We just keep rationalizing an ugly direction. It's not a liberal thing. It's not a conservative thing. It is all of us.

And we are giving cover, and have been, for some time, to the repressive instincts of despotic regimes around the world.

Perhaps we are too foolish to ever face up.

If so, as my man from Nazareth said, we know where to go to pluck the beam.