<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/opinion/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?hp&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/opinion/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?hp&_r=0</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><h1 itemprop="headline" class="articleHeadline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 2.4em; line-height: 1.083em; font-weight: normal; "><nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Free to Be Hungry</nyt_headline></h1><nyt_byline><h6 class="byline" style="margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">By <span itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html" rel="author" title="More Articles by PAUL KRUGMAN" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: none; "><span itemprop="name">PAUL KRUGMAN</span></a></span></h6></nyt_byline></span><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><div class="articleBody" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; "><nyt_text><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like<a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/andrewmontgomery39/top-10-reasons-food-stamps-need-to-be-reformed" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 91); text-decoration: underline; ">FreedomWorks</a>; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. Oh, and remember when we were supposed to refer to pommes frites as “freedom fries”?</div></nyt_text></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; ">The right’s definition of freedom, however, isn’t one that, say, F.D.R. would recognize. In ...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "></span></div></body></html>