Chapter one: The Difference Between Freedom and “Unfreedom”

Hoover senior fellow Niall Ferguson explains why many comparisons of the modern-day United States to the unfree societies of the 1930s and 1940s are misapplied. Those tyrannies were so oppressive that individuals often weren’t allowed to meet and talk with one another late into the night without raising alarms for the regime. To pretend that those unfree societies are similar to what America has today is a gross misuse of history that dangerously misunderstands what living in a tyranny is actually like.

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Additional resources:

Read Niall Ferguson’s book The Square and the Tower. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/squar....

Watch or listen to “Baby Busts and Bank Crashes: A Conversation with Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt” on GoodFellows. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/baby-....

Watch “Free Speech: Why Does It Matter?” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/building-blo....

Watch “Why Do Some Democracies Survive While Others Fail?” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/unarchived/w....

Read “Populism, Freedom, the National Interest, and the American Spirit,” by Peter Berkowitz via RealClear Politics. Available here: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/art....

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