Everywhere I turn these days the people seem to clamor for help, for security rather than for freedom.  Our mega institutions from Washington to Wal-Mart are ever happy to oblige.

Yesterday, over at LRC, I read a great column on the subject of individual liberty by Edward Curtin:

“The only way to deal with an unfree world,” Albert Camus wrote, “is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

William James said it was a choice.

Could the first act of freedom be to snap your fingers and say, “Yes, I am free, free at last.”

This piece reminded me of the late, great Harry Browne’s How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (1973).

H. Browne (RIP), Amazon.

Both are worth serious review by anyone who lives in the modern world but suspects he might actually desire a little personal liberty.