tHE FReeDOM projECT The Freedom Project at Wellesley College is dedicated to the exploration of the idea of freedom in all of its manifestations, but especially in the tradition of Western classical liberalism. This tradition emphasizes the sanctity of individual rights, freedom of contract and economic rights, constitutional democracy, and the rule of law. The Freedom Project also promotes interdisciplinary understandings of the idea of freedom, and values expansive intellectual pluralism and debate, especially on contentious issues.
Mark Lilla
Jodie Ginsberg
Tom Cushman
Mark Lilla: Identity Is Not Politics February 15 (Wed) | 7 PM Alumnae Hall Ballroom
Mark Lilla is an American political scientist, historian of ideas, journalist, and professor of humanities at Columbia University. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New York Times, he is the author of The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, and The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction.
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Catherine Ross
Laura Kipnis
THE FREEDOM PROJECT: CENSORSHIP AWARENESS WEEK Jodie Ginsberg and Tom Cushman March 6 (Mon) | 4:30–6:30 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
Jodie Ginsberg is the chief executive of Index on Censorship, a UK-based organization that promotes freedom of expression and campaigns against censorship worldwide. Ginsberg joined Index from the think-tank Demos, where she was deputy director of Demos Finance,
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