![]() ![]() The connection between these essays is mostly theoretical, and there’s not much cross-referencing between them, no clear argument that applies to both sex and art, say, or drugs and climate change. She explores freedom and care in four arenas: sex, drugs, art, and climate change. that does not reflexively pit freedom against obligation.” The book was born of her desire to reclaim the word from the right wing while resisting rhetoric from the left that “condition us into thinking of freedom as a future achievement rather than as an unending present practice.” “If and when we ascertain that our well-being is linked to the behavior of others, the desire to impugn, control, or change them can be as fruitless as it is intense,” writes Maggie Nelson in On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, her attempt to probe the question of “how to forge a fellowship. ![]() Even circumscribed freedoms intersect, impose, and oppose, as conflicts about speech, masks, and vaccines remind us daily. THE PRIMARY PROBLEM with freedom is that it’s impossible for everyone to have at the same time. ![]()
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