Months of furor over the NSA’s surveillance program have come to a head: a panel of advisors appointed by President Obama to make recommendations on reforming the NSA have released their report. We don’t necessarily endorse all the details of how that balance is struck here, but it looks like the authors of the report got the broad principles right. What’s needed, in both the NSA specifically and digital privacy more generally, is “ordered liberty” that reflects the ordered liberty we apply to the rest of American life.