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Masks and mandates: How individual rights and government regulation are both necessary for a free society

  • Written by Martha Ackelsberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, emerita, Smith College
imageResidents line up in their cars in late November at a food distribution site in Clermont, Florida, where many are hungry because of the pandemic. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

I’ve been thinking a lot, recently, about the tension between demanding “individual rights” – in the sense of deciding...

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