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Liberty is a loaded word

Just about everyone is for it, but we mean different things by it – whether it be the freedom of independence or the absence of coercive constraint

Nigel Warburton
Portrait of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the author of Leviathan, by John Michael Wright. National Portrait Gallery/ Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 08 March 2025
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