Today we had our first Freedom Scholars session with Kim Hendrickson. She teaches at George Washington University and is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. After a brief orientation to find out more about each other, we started discussing national security and civil liberties.
She’s making us start at square one evaluating the premises underlying the current debate. (Ex: Why have civil liberties generally increased in the U.S. as the government has grown larger?) Most of our session today was devoted to discussing several of the passages that we read before coming. Friday we have several sessions and we will dive into some court decisions. Mrs. Hendrickson is good at facilitating discussion and including all of the students.