"If you think that freedom is just negative, if you think that freedom is just an absence of [evil] things, I think you then argue yourself into a position where given the absence, stuff is going to work out. . . . The market is going to deliver you freedom... And that of course is wrong. It's an essentially authoritarian conviction."
"In areas taken back from Russian control, Ukrainians would tell Snyder they were 'de-occupied,' rather than liberated; 'freedom,' he writes, 'is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.'"
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