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I recommend Annelien De Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History, a look at how freedom and liberty have been defined and contested over for some 2500 years in the Western European tradition. It’s helpful in explaining the anti-democratic forces at play today in the Republican Party–they have deep antecedents in counter-revolutionary thought.
Backyard and Beyond 
Meadows are great. Lawns make a good place to bury the anti-democratic forces you mention. In time, those lawns could be returned to meadow biomes. Solves two problems simultaneously and no birds get hurt in this scenario.
Glorious!!