5. Capitalism and the Question of Freedom

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Editors’ Introduction xi
4. PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
5. 1. Why Freedom to Say Enlarges Freedom to Think 1
6. 2. Kant and “Can’t”: Practical Necessity and the Diminution of Options 15
7. 3. Freedom and Unfreedom in Human Categories: The Case of Multiplicity 27
8. PART II. POLITICAL ECONOMY
9. 4. Freedom and Coercion, Opportunity and the Economy: Neoliberalism, the Individual, and Society 63
10. 5. Capitalism and the Question of Freedom 106
11. 6. Whither Economic Rights? 119
12. PART III. SOCIETY AND LAW
13. 7. Roe v. Wade: Freedom of the Woman Versus Freedom of the Fetus 155
14. 8. Freedom and Coercion in Public Health 170
15. 9. The Prosecution of Gender Equal Abrahamic Circumcision: Implications for Jews and Muslims 182
16. PART IV. RACE
17. 10. Freedom in the American Century and After 207
18. 11. Freedom Through Unfreedom: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theory of Democratic Despotism 221
19. 12. The Denial of Freedom and Punitive Excess 235
20. PART V. THE ACADEMY
21. 13. The University in a Time of Crisis 253
22. 14. Persuasion, Manipulation, and Unfreedom 268
23. 15. Ridicule and Argument 279
24. 16. Is Wokeism Changing the Nature of Inquiry? 287
25. 17. A Confederacy of Snitches 301
26. 18. Freedom Gained and Freedom Lost in American Science 314
27. PART VI. MEDIA
28. 19. Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem 343
29. 20. Measuring the News and Its Impact on Democracy 353
30. 21. Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis: Fighting Disinformation in the 1930s 365
31. Notes 383
32. Contributors 431