and Religion
Freedom Essays
Essays on Liberty
The discussion of liberty involves both historical questions of how liberty was conceived at various moments in time and theoretical questions of how liberty should work in a liberal society. The first set of questions is historical and the second are "normative" and philosophical.
Those two types of questions are often intertwined and interact. This is especially true in America where "the founders' views" on liberty are thought definitive for how we today should understand our rights and freedoms.
But not surprisingly the issues of history and theory and their interplay are much more complicated than most people admit. I've broken my essays accordingly into historical and theoretical questions, though I also take up the question of how both are or should be related.
