Year in Review: How Did Liberty Fare in 2025? | Independent Outlook 75

For those who care about liberty, 2025 was a mixed bag. On the down side, socialism was embraced explicitly by some Americans on the left, and implicitly by some on the right. On the up side, the principle that people should be treated even-handedly without reference to their race—especially by the government—seems finally to be reemerging from the DEI house of mirrors. On this episode of Independent Outlook, we take a look back at these and other big issues of 2025, where the fate of liberty has been on the line repeatedly.