"The essays are based on the Liberty seminar held at Engelsberg Ironworks in Västmanland, Sweden in 2022."--Colophon.
Contents:
Liberty under attack from enemies within / Juliet Samuel. Origins of western liberty. Reclaiming Christian freedom for the modern age / Richard Chartres -- Spartacus and the endless march of liberty / Richard Miles -- The relevance of Athenian freedom today / Mark J. Schiefsky -- The quest for liberty. Liberty and the 'myth' of Venice / Alexander Lee -- Liberty in the shadow of Bonaparte / Jeremy Jennings -- Sticking to the freedom script / Christopher Coker -- Breaking free. The truth shall set us free / Marie Daouda -- The elation of liberation / Agnès C. Poirier -- The rebirth of American power / Francis J. Gavin -- The writer's right to speak freely / Alexander McCall Smith -- The meaning of liberty. A decade on the culture war's frontline / Fraser Nelson -- Share power / Marryn Somerset Webb -- The new authoritarians / Kemi Badenoch -- Creating the free world. The German key to European liberty / Brendan Simms -- Benevolent hypocrisy? In defence of the west's democratic moralism / John Bew -- The west has not won yet / Katja Hoyer -- The power to do what we please / Peter Frankopan -- One for all, all for one. Why Finns joined the fight / Charly Salonius-Pasternak -- How a second Cold War could have been averted / Mary E. Sarotte -- Can Europe come to NATO's defence? / Janne Haaland Matláry -- Fighting for freedom. Fighting against the odds / Rob Johnson -- Beware the enemy at the table / Iuliia Osmolovska -- Risks of rushing to Russian peace deal / Alina Polyakova -- Fighting the good fight / Kori Schake -- An authoritarian world order? What drives Vladimir Putin? / Sergey Radchenko -- Gazing back to see China's future / Roel Sterckx -- The west needs new grand strategy / Adrian Bradshaw -- The endurance of western values. Is academic freedom under threat? / Matthew Goodwin -- Liberty under attack from enemies within / Juliet Samuel.
Summary:
"How has the idea of liberty developed and evolved over the centuries? What does freedom mean for us today and what do we need to do to preserve the freedoms for which generations of men and women fought and even gave their lives? Liberty is indispensable to flourishing societies the world over. Its story contains everything from our ancestors' long quest to establish freedom of thought and freedom of religion, to the modern fight against authoritarian politics and tyrants everywhere. In this anthology leading academics, writers and historians explore what liberty has meant through the ages and reflect on this great drama of freedom at work."--Page 4 of cover.
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