Governing Free Men

The Conditions of Freedom By Harry V. Jaffa

Johns Hopkins, 280 pp., $12.50 This remarkably unheralded collection of essays and reviews might have been called by the title of a book by Bernard Crick: In Defense of Politics. In this book, Harry V. Jaffa undertakes to define and to vindicate the activity of governing free men, confronting several forms of the apparent paradox contained in that phrase: “governing free men.” For, as both totalitarians and anarchists insist, it would seem that we are unfree exactly in proportion as we are governed by other men.

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The Conditions of Freedom By Harry V. Jaffa

Johns Hopkins, 280 pp., $12.50 This remarkably unheralded collection of essays and reviews might have been called by the title of a book by Bernard Crick: In Defense of Politics. In this book, Harry V. Jaffa undertakes to define and to vindicate the activity of governing free men, confronting several forms of the apparent paradox contained in that phrase: “governing free men.” For, as both totalitarians and anarchists insist, it would seem that we are unfree exactly in proportion as we are governed by other men.