Last Friday my latest essay, “Meanings of Liberty: A Contested Concept,” was published at Econlib.
It was my singular good fortune to serve as the editor for the April 2021 Liberty Matters forum, “Meanings of Liberty: Aron, Constant, Berlin.” What is liberty, and what does it mean (to each of these thinkers)? This, in essence, is the question that April lead essayist Daniel B. Klein and two respondents, Daniel J. Mahoney and Helena Rosenblatt, set out to explore in this particular edition of Liberty Matters. If you are not yet familiar with the Liberty Matters series, no worries: each month at the Online Library of Liberty we feature a fresh collection of essays and responses on a different topic pertaining to the idea of liberty. Now that last month’s conversation has come to an end, I hope in this response to draw some additional attention to a few elements of the exchange that I took to be significant.
If you’d like to read the whole piece, you can do so here. I hope you’ll also check out the rest of the April Liberty Matters conversation. It was a good one.
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