K Lo, I just got the kids to bed, so I should be able to watch the SOTU uninterrupted. Still, I can’t imagine I’ll hear anything more eloquent than this line from Charlotte’s Web, which I’m currently reading to No. 1 Son at bedtime: Said the goose to the pig, “An hour of freedom is worth a barrel of slops.”

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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