In 1961,
obedience experiments conducted by Yale's Stanley Milgram famously
revealed that Americans were no better at resisting the claims of
authority than other people. So why hasn't the U.S. had its own
Gulag or Auschwitz? The answer, writes Science Correspondent Ronald
Bailey, is liberty. Our social institutions have traditionally
limited what authorities can get away with.
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