I have many friends, family, and acquaintances whom I respect very much but simply do not comprehend the decline of the United States from a self-governing representative democracy of citizens into a non-free society of subjects under the rule of a…

I recently picked up a January 2012 issue of Reason Magazine and read an article by Jonathan Haidt on the moral foundations of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  (That article described the six clusters of moral concerns—care/harm, fairness/cheating,…