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Blog Review: Out of Control (Taking Liberties with Autonomy during a Pandemic) by Alfie Kohn

Ed Ladd | Published on 9/17/2020

In Alfie Kohn’s latest blog entitled Out of Control: Taking Liberties with Autonomy During a Pandemic, he opens with a quotation from Warren Buffet: “When the tide goes out, we can finally see who has been swimming naked.”  Kohn restates this in how a pandemic confronts us with many “truths” about ourselves: what kind of society we really have, what we really “culturally” believe, and our “tendency to worship individual liberty and slight the common good.”