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Spring 2025, Book Chapter: "Liberals prize two things above all: freedom and pluralism. Freedom is associated with agency. In liberal societies, people are allowed and encouraged to establish their own path, to take it if they like, and to reverse course if they want to do that. Liberals think people should be allowed to be authors of the narratives of their own lives. Pluralism follows from the commitment to freedom. Some people will want to marry; some people will not want to marry. Some people will want to have children; some people will not want to have children. Because liberals believe in freedom and pluralism, many of them are romantics. They like it when people fall in love. They think people should be allowed to have secrets and to keep them to themselves. A. S. Byatt's great novel Possession is a quintessentially liberal novel.¹ Liberals promote freedom from fear. They want people to feel safe. "