The new permissiveness affects city-dwellers more than country people, the rich more than the poor.

ECONOMIST: From Calvinism to cruising

Experience shows, that problems started to brew, when tight grip was suddenly fully released, going to total permissiveness.

FORBES: Tens of Thousands Protest in Moscow In Support of the Orthodox Church - Illiberalism is Alive and Well in Russia

Canada passed a law in June that sets a new standard of permissiveness.

ECONOMIST: New copyright rules for the digital age

Back at the BBFC, there have been glimpses of more permissiveness in what it's willing to license for mainstream distribution.

BBC: Peep show

Not all attempts to cash in on South Africa's new permissiveness succeed.

ECONOMIST: From Calvinism to cruising

English has always been a ragbag, and that encouraged further permissiveness.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

To what extent, Tony Campolo, does American culture, its permissiveness, its lack of humility, its abrasiveness and its almost imperial march feed into the problem in the world today?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gaffney debates on Hugh Hewitt show

On April 4th the secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, seemed to suggest that bombing Serbia's army to pieces might be one way to secure the permissiveness necessary for a ground deployment.

ECONOMIST: Troops or no troops?

Day Tripper - an ode to sexual permissiveness - was the Beatle's first flirtation with social realism, while Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Get Back and Come Together remain complex, serious songs from a seriously important band.

BBC: CD Review: The Beatles

The federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in concluded in its final report two years ago that the 2007-2008 market upheaval, followed by national recession, came from a decade of "pervasive permissiveness" by regulators with expanding debt and high-risk behavior by home buyers and owners, mortgage lenders, investors and financial institutions that repackaged and resold that debt.

WSJ: NY attorney general looks at ratings agencies