Rights and responsibilities

On the wall above my desk as I write this is a framed reproduction of Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” one of four paintings the seminal American artist did for the Saturday Evening Post in 1942 to help promote President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” initiative as the U.S. entered World War II. My sister bought the print for me when we saw an excellent Rockwell exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (in February 2020, right before the COVID lockdown), and later had it framed for me as a birthday gift – one of her best ever.