# Independence Day: What is There to Celebrate?

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/independence-day-what-is-there-to-celebrate>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** February 8, 2017

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The ideal of individual freedom is more than a will-o’-the-wisp. It was widely appreciated in the past and so may become widely appreciated in the future.

[Originally published in essay form on July 3, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/independence-day-what-is-there-celebrate)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._