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Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESK The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in...

We live in a world where strongman politics are rising, neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary voters feel helpless to effect change, resulting in outbreaks of populist anger, and traditional platforms for debate are losing their viability as readers source information online. In this short and vital polemic, progressive thinker and activist Billy Bragg argues that accountability is the antidote to authoritarianism and that without it, we can never truly be free. 

First published in April 1844 in The Dial, Henry David Thoreau’s Herald of Freedom is a blistering, big-hearted tribute to the radical anti-slavery newspaper of New Hampshire and its fearless editor, Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. With wit, mountain-air clarity, and moral thunder, Thoreau...

Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn’t get a driver’s license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs - and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn’t get caught.

Harold Hongju Koh describes how the partition of Korea and his role as a human rights official in the State Department shaped his belief in "The Bright Lights of Freedom", for NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous...

An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day. 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...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, Polish-American director Maximilian Hodder tells of his restored faith in humanity after escaping a Soviet gulag, in "A New Birth of Freedom," his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that...

Eric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. This volume collects fifty-eight of Eric Foner’s more recent reviews and commentaries. Together they show the range of his interests and expertise, running from slavery and antislavery through the disunion and remaking of the United States in the nineteenth century, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, and into our own political moment. Each piece shows a master at work, melding historical knowledge and balanced judgment with fine prose.

In February 2017, Gurmehar Kaur, a nineteen-year-old student, joined a peaceful campaign after violent clashes at a Delhi University college. As part of the campaign, Kaur's post made her the target of an onslaught of social media vitriol. Kaur, the daughter of a war martyr, suddenly became the...

'Safety' for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of autonomy. To be 'safe', women are told they must allow themselves to be kept under constant surveillance. Their movement is restricted to specific spaces, often homes and hostels. Extreme levels of control are exercised...

"Хотите постичь смысл жизни? Научиться быть счастливым? ""В чем наше благо?"" – это книга, которая перевернет ваше представление о смысле жизни и покажет, что истинное счастье находится внутри нас. В ней вы найдете уроки о том, как принимать изменчивость мира, как находить радость в моменте и как строить гармоничные отношения с собой и окружающими.

Written with equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasingly—and once again—dependent on geography and circumstance.