women. But the perennial challenges to sustainable freedom go well beyond these long-standing contradictions so amply explored by historians since the 1960s. The glory of freedom should never blind anyone to its immoderate nature and therefore to the stern requirements that surround it. For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom. Throughout the course of history, freedom presents an inescapable and tightly coiled conundrum that sums up the challenge
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