"Hundreds of Years Later, Those Two Competing Views of Freedom Remain Largely Unreconcilable"

"When conservative politicians like Rand Paul and advocacy groups FreedomWorks or the Federalist Society talk about their love of liberty, they usually mean something very different from civil rights activists like John Lewis—and from the revolutionaries, abolitionists and feminists in whose footsteps Lewis walked. Instead, they are channeling 19th century conservatives like Francis Parkman and William Graham Sumner, who believed that freedom is about protecting property rights—if need be, by obstructing democracy."

Annelien de Dijn at Time discusses left and right definitions of freedom.