
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
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Air Date: 2007-03-11
In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical mo...
Air Date: 2007-03-18
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Air Date: 2007-03-25
The final program focused on the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by Isaiah Berlin. ...