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I don’t know how free Amish women are

Bryan Caplan writes: Ques­tion: How free are Amish women com­pared to other Amer­i­can women?  I say they’re just as free.  I also say, against Will Wilkin­son, that their “for­mal free­dom” is morally sig­nif­i­cant. If the Amish used threats of vio­lence to keep their women in, it would be a ter­ri­ble crime.  As mat­ters stand, though,