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Eric Foner: 9/11 Wrongly Defined American Freedom [video 3 min 21 sec]

American Historian Eric Foner finds the exclusive American definition of freedom as a direct consequence of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Foner believes that an officially sanctioned definition of freedom -- as found on the White House's website -- to be an illiberal idea.

True freedom, he says, allows for competing models.
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