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Journal of Free Speech Law: "Is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty Obsolete?," by Vince Blasi

A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.

Reason

A ‘superficial’ and ‘misguided’ version of freedom has captured the American right. Joseph Stiglitz considers the alternatives

“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?”

The Conversation

Systems science for a better future

When economists and scientists with their incomplete understanding of the world become the guides of leaders and steer social and economic policies, the losers are common people and the environment

The Hindu

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Readable in one sitting — and other issues

Yet, it is not fashionable, nor is it popular with publishers who think it falls into a chasm between the short story and the novel. Mathematical definitions are not of much help – a novella could be anywhere from ten thousand to forty thousand words. Edgar Allan Poe caught the…

The Hindu

Did liberalism sabotage itself?

Historian Samuel Moyn's account of the downfall of liberalism raises intriguing questions — but can't answer them

Salon

The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy review – a history of utopias

The dreamers and schemers who conjured up ideal futures, from Thomas More to Extinction Rebellion

The Guardian - UK

Manhood review: Josh Hawley, moraliser, neo-Confederate and Tucker Carlson of the US Senate

The Missouri Republican senator thinks something is amiss with American men. Something is definitely up with him

The Guardian - US

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Here's how to get promoted in a recession

Curb the competitive streak and be open to unexpected options is among the advice from the experts.

Fortune

Overruling Roe Would Extinguish A Judicially Created Right, But Would Restore The People's "Precious Right To Govern Themselves"

There is not a single definition of liberty.

Reason

Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?

It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.

Reason

Negative liberty

Isaiah Berlin gives a neat distinction between two types of liberties

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