The pandemic has shown how much America has changed for the worse. America has always been the land of the free and home of the brave, but is it now transforming into the land of the sheep and home of the cowards? Our American ancestors were incredibly courageous people but today, we live in fear—of illness, of our fellow neighbors, of intellectual diversity, of alternative ideas, of climate change, of dying from COVID. How did Americans become conditioned to be so fearful? Dennis provides some insight.