Reclaiming Freedom

Salvation Now

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

  • Travis Knoll

Talk Is Cheap

Freedom needs builders, not theorists.

  • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Capitalist Unfreedom

Liberalism failed to deliver on the promise of freedom from fear.

  • Lea Ypi

Democracy Over Freedom

We shouldn’t rehabilitate the rhetoric of liberty.

  • Jefferson Cowie

A Political Education

How do we actually build the institutions Rana wants?

  • Adom Getachew

Freedom Memes

We can live free in the everyday.

  • Elisabeth R. Anker

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Freeing Time

Work isn’t the only battleground.

  • Julie Rose

Against Domination

Freedom means being in control of what others can do to you.

  • William Clare Roberts

Yes, Freedom!

It’s the only path to solidarity.

  • Philippe Van Parijs

Family Matters

Possessive families are a form of bondage.

  • Nancy Hirschmann
  • Tamara Metz

Freedom’s High Ground

We need to catch up to the right.

  • Lorna N. Bracewell

A Genuine Politics of Freedom

Aziz Rana replies.

  • Aziz Rana

The Story of Freedom

The narrative matters.

  • Mark Paul

A Different Freedom

American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.

  • Aziz Rana
with responses from
  • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
  • Lea Ypi
  • Jefferson Cowie
  • Adom Getachew
  • Elisabeth R. Anker
  • Julie Rose
  • William Clare Roberts
  • Philippe Van Parijs
  • Nancy Hirschmann & Tamara Metz
  • Lorna N. Bracewell
  • Mark Paul

What Does It Mean to Be Free?

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

  • Nathalie Etoke
  • Lewis Gordon

Can We Imagine a World Without Work?

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

  • Rachel Fraser

More than Genocide

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

  • A. Dirk Moses

What Are Families For?

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can’t sustain.

  • Will Holub-Moorman

Cop Cities in a Militarized World

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

  • Azadeh Shahshahani
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