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Online Library of Liberty The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.

Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Daniel B. Klein, "Meanings of Liberty: Aron, Constant, Berlin" (April 2021)

Raymond Aron, Benjamin Constant, and Isaiah Berlin are three thinkers whose work illuminates different aspects of the meaning of the idea of "liberty." This collection of essays and responses engages with the differing characterizations of liberty proffered by these individuals, but also looks for unifying threads running between and among them. Daniel B. Klein kicks things off in his lead essa...

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Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Shakespeare

Shakespeare is one of  the authors whose name is inscribed on the walls of the King Henry IV, King Lear, and the Tempest.   ...

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Best of the OLL BOLL 18: Friedrich Hayek, “Kinds of Order in Society” (1964)

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This essay is by the Austrian economist and social theorist Friedrich Hayek in which he gives one of the most concise explanations of the difference between “constructed” orders and “spontaneous” orders. He focuses on the example of the division of labor as one of...

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Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Tocqueville on the true love of liberty (1856)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) in his unfinished history of the Revolution of 1789 asks where the love of liberty comes from:

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