The Liberty Paradox

"Kinley makes a powerful case for restoring the contingent and reciprocal notion of liberty to its rightful place in democracy, as opposed to the absolutist concept of freedom that is currently in vogue. This wide-ranging discussion of the contemporary and historical balances that must be struck between individual and community rights is an excellent introduction to a much-needed debate."

"Conceptual and informative, and enjoyable and intriguing. How did we get here, a place of a facile functioning of freedom, with people in democracies everywhere proclaiming their freedom over other citizens with whom they share a country? This book is prescient and observant."

"Kinley has rediscovered liberty, which provides the essential nexus between freedom and responsibility. This book was desperately needed three years ago, but it is not too late. Everyone interested in how we go forward from here will find in it the balances essential to good decision making."

"David Kinley has produced a superb and subtle interrogation of the tensions and paradoxes of individual agency in complex ecologies of agency exercised by individual bodies and bodies corporate."

"Filled with the most readable vignettes of historical and contemporary significance, this book takes us on a much-needed global journey through the many and varied paradoxes of liberty to help us appreciate that liberty, in all its glory, encompasses both freedom and responsibility."

"How free are you? How free do you want to be? Free to live and love, earn and spend, speak and breathe, lie and die, just as you please? What about your fellow citizens? With skill and wit, Kinley guides our hands over the contours of our liberties, showing how trust and respect define the true freedoms that all can share."