{"id":5218,"date":"2025-03-26T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:56:11","slug":"locking-down-american-liberty-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/locking-down-american-liberty-during-covid","title":{"rendered":"Locking Down American Liberty During Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why were we so willing to acquiesce to the draconian lockdowns imposed on us by what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2025\/03\/history-ended-five-years-ago\/\" title=\"Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review\">Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review<\/a> called &#8220;the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking&#8221;? And where is the outrage today over everything that was taken away from us by the elites who lied to us for almost three years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.org\/aboutus\/person_detail.asp?id=3777\" title=\"\">Dr. Phil Magness<\/a>, Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.org\/\" title=\"\">Independent Institute<\/a>, has produced <a href=\"https:\/\/lawliberty.org\/forum\/locking-down-american-liberty\/\" title=\"an excellent history\">an excellent history<\/a> of how pandemics over the previous century were handled, concluding that our government &#8220;&#8230;set aside a century of knowledge for the fashionable and flashy promise of a plan, asking not whether its imagined design will ever work.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spoke with Dr. Magness about his essay on The Paul Edwards Program on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Listen below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Phil_Magness.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why were we so willing to acquiesce to the draconian lockdowns imposed on us by what Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review called &#8220;the Absolute Sovereignty of Liberal Professional Class Conventional Thinking&#8221;? And where is the outrage today over everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/locking-down-american-liberty-during-covid\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}