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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Description: With me on todayâs show is Professor Elizabeth Anker, whose most recent book, Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), works to understand how the idea of freedom, seemingly so fundamental to our understanding of the American experience, is often the very concept that allows for the brutal deprivation of the freedom of others. As she writes, âugly freedom entails a dynamic in which practices of freedom produce harm, brutality, and subjugation as freedom.â Today we will be discussing Professor Ankerâs theory of ugly freedom in the context of our unending crisis of gun violence in the United States. This showâs topic feels...