Liberty is related to Western civilization most importantly through Christianity, and it is preserved and transmitted by ways of classical learning. Man possesses a God-given ability to make choices, and ultimately, to live with the consequences.
Far too often among faculty of America’s secular humanist universities, things Divine are often relegated as a point of insignificance, if they are examined at all. Discussions of freedom without the teachings of Christianity are null and void; they do not matter, and never have.