What does she stand for? A meditation on the Statue of Liberty on her 133rd birthday

Today, Oct. 28, 2019, is the Statue of Liberty’s 133rd birthday.

What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant...