In the last few weeks a spate of American stores have made headlines after putting up signs telling customers who wear masks they will be denied entry.
Meanwhile, store owners tell customers what they can and cannot wear before entering, and customers cough in the faces of workers in the name of freedom.
A misbegotten, warped freedom obsession is killing us.
“A warped freedom obsession is killing us,†said the writer Anand Giridharadas, in reference to those coughing in the faces of others in the name of freedom
In Franklin D Roosevelt’s famous 1941 Four Freedoms speech, he detailed that, yes, Americans are owed a right to freedom of speech and expression and to worship whom they please – but he also mentioned the freedom from fear