Every New Right Is A Freedom Lost

For a long time, individual rights were viewed as a protection against an overweening political power, allowing citizens and businesses to freely govern themselves without interference at work, home, and at worship. These rights were enshrined in seminal documents such as the English Magna Carta, and later the United States Declaration of Independence.

Later, however, this view of rights began to change. In Europe, Latin America, and other countries (and increasingly, the United States), "r...