Freedom and Liberty for All - What Does It Really Mean?

<p>Produced by KSQD90.7FM</p> <p><strong>“Be Bold America!”</strong> <strong>Sunday, June 20, 2021&nbsp;</strong>at&nbsp;<strong>5:00pm</strong></p> <p><em>“The real threat to our future is Biden and the well-heeled powerful forces who want us to lose sight of what made America great in the first place.&nbsp;It’s not our diversity. It’s our freedom.” - Laura Ingraham - Fox News</em></p> <p>What is freedom, really? It is when someone says, "It's my freedom to not get vaccinated"? &nbsp;Is it when, in the view of Laura Ingraham, that well-heeled forces are trying to get her to lose sight of what made America great in the first place?</p> <p>What did make America great in the first place? If it isn't our diversity that is adopted in our country's motto,&nbsp;<em>e pluribus unum</em>&nbsp;(out of many, one), then what is it? Who are these "well-heeled" forces anyway and are there no "well-healed" powerful forces threatening our future from the alt-right?</p> <p>Victor Frankl, psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor said that his concentration camp guards had more&nbsp;<em>liberty </em>than he, but that he had more&nbsp;<em>freedom</em>&nbsp;than his captors. What did he mean by this?</p> <p>Have we lost the definition of freedom? Have we manipulated it to support our selfishness and/ or our political beliefs?</p> <p><strong>Interview Guest:</strong></p> <p><strong>Thomas J. Main</strong> is a Professor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs of Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of&nbsp;<em>The Rise of Illiberalism</em>&nbsp;(Brookings, forthcoming Fall 2021),&nbsp;<em>The Rise of the Alt-Right</em>, (Brookings 2018) and&nbsp;<em>Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio&nbsp;</em>(NYU Press 2016). &nbsp;His research interests are: liberal democracy and its challenges, bureaucracy and public administration, urban politics, homelessness, and the American Constitution and founding.&nbsp;Prof. Main holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, a two-year MPA from