October 8, 2012 by Claude Fischer
We are entering the season of the Great American Choice, the quadrennial selection of our leader.
Choice defines the freedom and the integrity of the individual in American culture. Except for perhaps the most God-fearing among us, the right and duty to choose trumps most other values . . . .
I pursue this topic in my column in the Boston Review, linked to here.
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