Against Balancing
by David Kaye, United Nations
The New York Times’ Editorial Board led on Sunday with this headline: “When Liberty and Health Collide”. It’s a good topic and I am glad that the Times is on it. The pandemic has led governments at national, state and local levels to take measures that impose all sorts of restrictions on Americans’ fundamental rights — freedom of movement, labor, speech, religion, protest, assembly, privacy and so on. It’s a global phenomenon but here I want to reference the American debate, as framed by the Times.
