Commentary
The COVID-19 response has raised questions regarding freedom in Western societies that, a few years ago, we thought were settled. Is freedom something we are allowed or granted? Or is it something we are born with, which can therefore only be removed? What is the status, now or in the future, of a child born into slavery, or a child born into a camp in Xinjiang or North Korea, or a child born into a digitized, centrally managed society of some future Western dystopia?