liberty

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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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• 6/20/2021
  

  Liberty, Freedom, and Whiteness: Reviewing Tyler Stovall's "White Freedom"

  by Alan J. Singer

  Tyler Stovall's book is a searching examination of the historical connections between a developing white identity, the Enlightenment concepts of liberty, and the political practice of racial hierarchy. 

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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: Boston Review
  9/23/2020
  

  Is Freedom White?

  by Jefferson Cowie

  In American mythology, there exists a gauzy past when white citizens were left alone to do as they pleased with their land and their labor (even if it was land stolen and labor enslaved). In the legend, those days of freedom and equality were, and still are, perpetually under assault. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  Ken Burns: Our Monuments are Representations of Myth, Not Fact

  James Baldwin reflects on the complexity of "liberty" in the context of anti-black racism. 

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• 1-25-15
  

  Can Timothy McVeigh and His Ilk Claim Jefferson as a Hero of Liberty?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  They have, but Jefferson was never committed to liberty per se, but always committed to liberty in the service of intellectual and moral advance.

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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?