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What does 'freedom' mean in America? The hosts trace how the concept has been redefined by every generation — from freedom as self-governance to freedom as consumer choice — and how different groups have always meant different things by the same word.
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The founding generation understood freedom as inseparable from civic responsibility — you were free because you participated in self-governance. Modern consumer freedom dropped the responsibility half of the equation.
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