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I understand liberty to mean: you don’t have to do what someone else is trying to impose on you. It is a sort of negative liberty.

Negative liberty is what the American colonists fought for in the War of Independence.

Nowadays, there are endless disputes about liberty even though they hide as hot-button topics such as Trans and LGBTQA+ rights, global warming and what to do about it, personal health decisions like abortion rights, and the particularly American issues like the right to bear arms and the right to unfettered expression.

A Memory Called Empire

A Memory Called Empire

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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine is the story of a young diplomat from a ‘provincial’ region of space who makes it to the center of the Teixcalaan Empire to represent her people. Her own region is a nominal vassal state though it retains much independence. This region is important because it is a frontier area where the Empire would like to expand.