Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. “Free from what?” Friedrich Nietzsche has his counterprophet ask rhetorically. He isn’t interested in the answer. “What does it matter to ...

Liberal education is education for freedom. What kind of freedom does it or should it cultivate? A probing conversation into the nature of freedom, the ways in which individuals and communities can ...

Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “On Freedom.” I know a town in southern Ukraine where every single house has been destroyed by shelling or bombing. Even the ...

I’d like to put a name to why we so badly need to reform our legal approach to treating the severely mentally ill. That name is Rebecca Smith, an elderly homeless woman who lived in lower Manhattan in ...

Freedom is a concept as old as time itself. It’s something that resonates deep within the human spirit, and that manifests itself throughout history in countless struggles for liberation. But it is ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document declared the 13 colonies an independent nation from Great Britain. Though the Revolutionary War ...