On Freedom

Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson

so often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? on freedom...