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What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free
The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
by
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
,
Annelien de Dijn
via
The Nation
on
October 29, 2020
‘Freedom’ Means Something Different to Liberals and Conservatives
How two competing definitions of the idea evolved over 250 years—and why they remain largely irreconcilable.
by
Annelien de Dijn
via
TIME
on
August 25, 2020
Book
Freedom
: An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn
2022
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Defend Liberalism? Let’s Fight for Democracy First
America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.
by
Jefferson Cowie
via
The New Republic
on
June 21, 2024
Whose Freedom?
On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.
by
David A. Bell
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 2, 2021