Americans value nothing more than freedom. The concept stands enshrined in our founding documents and our hearts. But as a civilization, our constant challenge is to understand what freedom is and what it is not. The modern notion of freedom — not modern at all, for we borrowed it from old Corinth — is an absolute, libertarian freedom. “All things are lawful for me” (1 Corinthians 6:12). Freedom is considered a sacred endowment of the individual. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ……