Dueling Liberties

Michael Pates
5 min readMay 25, 2020

Order v. Expression in the American Dialectic

A young American tourist at Boston Harbor in 2018. © Michael Pates

The American colonies were founded and filled by people willing to leave the lives they knew for better ones they didn’t. Upon that free-spirited, disputatious foundation a political culture was built with little patience for the distracting problems of other peoples, the ancient histories from which they emanate, and the enduring traumas to which their lives are beholden.

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Michael Pates

A human rights lawyer based in Washington, DC, and founding editor of cylindr — the online magazine & meetinghouse for human rights advocacy (www.cylindr.co).