On Freedom (5/5)

My new book, to be published 17 September

For the last five years I have been thinking about how to define freedom, and how to design a politics around it.

The new book On Freedom works forward from a philosophy of freedom to a proposal for government and a description of a brighter future. It is meant to handle a timeless subject, but I believe that it has something to offer this very moment.

The subjects below — the titles of all of the book’s 135 vignettes — are a preview of its contents. I will post soon on places where I will be speaking about the book this fall.

Jubilee • Flight • Holocausts • Bells • Equilibrium • Exceptionalism • Oligarchy • Staying • Leib • Life • Neighbor • Mystery • Stadium • Death • Race • Happiness • Health • Catching • Pitching • Breathing • Recognizing • Acknowledging • Seeing • Swimming • Contract • Contact • Loan • Opening • Improbable States • Declarations and Accommodations • Entropy and Gravity • Our Machines • Our Cosmonauts • Human Rights • Plastic People • Normal Dissidents • Emancipation • Glass Cane • Servant • Biography • Maidan • Confinement • Celly • Lost Time • Regained Time • Inhuman Barriers • Rationalizing Zombies • Brain Hacks • Experimental Isolation • Icy Tumult • Led Leaderless • Self-Built Cages • Radical Tradition • Wolf’s Word • Life’s Arc • Can You Imagine? • Freedom Ride • Public Trauma • Three Dimensions • Stalin’s Future • Among Empires • Closed Frontier • Social Mobility • Middle Class • Mass Incarceration • Big Zone • Racial Unfreedom • Immobilization Politics • Russian Guest • Convergent Stagnation • Roads and Tracks • Sadopopulism • Time Warps • One Percent of One Percent • Unspeakable Wealth • Eternity Politics • Ecological War • Responsibility Politics • Living Truth • Suns • Fusion Living Harmonies • Tiny Stars • Extinction Spiral • Significant Roughness • Party Line • Perfect Victims • America’s End • Electing Dictators • Missing Reporters • Flowing Fountain • Powerful Lies • Murderous Orders • Free Speakers • Just People • Testifying • Civil Rights • Civil Society • Practical Politics • Bubble Men • Mortality • Venus • Void • Subjects • Objects • Hand • Efficiency • Libertarian Unfreedom • Oligarch Hypocrisy • Cyborg Politics • Death Cult • Notalitarians • Lake and Forest • Awakening • Geometry • Individuals • Divisions • Democrats • Voters • Republicans • Historians • Children • Sovereigns • Parents • Movers • Workers • Prisoners • Distributions • Minds • Listeners • News • Rings • Grasp • Inclusion • Chance

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

PS: Barnes and Noble has just announced a promotion: 25% off the price of On Freedom. The code for the promotion is ONFREEDOM25. It will run from now until the 28th of the month.