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    A Woman Who Takes Lady Liberty Seriously

    Reaction to a Fourth of July protest suggests that some people who purport to revere the American monument actually fail to grasp its significance.
    by Conor Friedersdorf Jul 06, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

    Is any time or place better suited to protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policy than the one chosen by Therese Okoumou, the 44-year-old woman arrested for climbing onto the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July?

    Lady Liberty stands atop 14.7 acres officially named Liberty Island by an act of Congress. The tablet in her left hand is inscribed with the date when a group of American revolutionaries demanded broader liberty via an explicitly universalist manifesto emphasizing

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