And You Thought You Lived

Because they can vote for Tweedledum or Tweedledee, the red team or the blue team, or the welfare statist or the warfare statist, Americans think they live in a free society.

They sing that they are proud to be an American “where at least I know I’m free.” They sing the national anthem and roar when it comes to the line about America being “the land of the free.”

Are they free? Is it free?

I recently saw that the first legal bare-knuckle boxing bout in the United States was held in over a hun...