freedom

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  8/30/2021
  

  Histories of Violence: When Freedom Turns Ugly

  American Studies scholar Elizabeth Anker's work examines "ugly freedom," in which the capacity of one group to dominate another is constructed as the positive social value of liberty. She discusses it with philosopher Brad Evans.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/22/2021
  

  Liberty’s Discontents: The Contested History of Freedom

  Annelien de Dijn's book examines the tensions and contradictions inherent in the idea of freedom, arguing that the individualistic, liberty-focused ideal is a recent phenomenon and has obscured ideas of freedom rooted in democracy and collective security. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  There’s a Word for Why We Wear Masks, and Liberals Should Say It

  by Michael Tomasky

  "Say this: Freedom means the freedom not to get infected by the idiot who refuses to mask up. Even John Stuart Mill would have agreed."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-14-18
  

  The myth of freedom

  by Yuval Noah Harari

  Governments and corporations will soon know you better than you know yourself. Belief in the idea of ‘free will’ has become dangerous.

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• 11-2-14
  

  The Question We Need to Remember to Ask Ourselves If We Want to Keep Our Freedoms

  by Christopher L. Webber

  What if the experiment in liberty should perish from the earth or be limited to America and other western democracies?