The welfare state needs to be downsized for demographic reasons etc., but it just ain't true people are that happy about the inevitable new birth of freedom. (firstthings.com)
But conservatives really can't say that the resulting new birth of freedom has been good for the dignified relational lives of ordinary Americas. (firstthings.com)
Most recently this approach has been perfected by Peter C. Hodgson (in New Birth of Freedom: A Theology of Bondage and Liberation [Fortress, 1976]-RRB-: (religion-online.org)