Steven Greenhut

Greenhut writes for the Orange County Register editorial page. Some stuff he writes is good but he has a tendency to overstate. Today he has a piece on freedoms in the U.S. It's a part of the Register's July 4th celebration. Few would disagree with anything in the opening paragraphs of the piece but later he reverts to form and overstates the ways in which we in the U.S. are not free. Perhaps it's an editorial-writing axiom that overstatement is necessary to keep readers interested. More likely, it's a flaw that detracts from otherwise well reasoned arguments.