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There are values other than freedom, such as charity, justice, self-realisation, and it is to obstruct, indeed subvert, the task of moral valuation and intelligent political action to subsume all of these indisputable goods under that single rubric, freedom. Surely, this is right: the good of freedom can best be served by seeing it sharply for what it is: the absence, or removal, of restraints of choice.

His ability to catch the allegiances and the emotional tone of the authors he has written about, as well as his ability to meet the commentator’s first duty to the subtleties of their thought, has always meant that their personalities and ideas alike have remained intact and alive.