Most of us still want our democracy. This is one lesson from the nightmare we’ve been through. We learned how fragile it all is—how many things that had always seemed engraved in monumental stone or written on parchment in permanent ink turn out to depend on flimsy traditions and disposable norms, and how much these depend on public opinion. One un

The countries where people tend to think of freedom as freedom to are doing better by our own measures, which tend to focus on freedom from.

But “anti-Fascism” or “anti-Communism” is not enough. Nor is even the defense of freedom. What has been gained may not be maintained, against invasion without and erosion within, if we are content to stand still. The peoples who are partially free as a result of what their forebears achieved in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries