There are many roads to modern liberty, but some focus not on the triumphant will but on the richness of the person and our commitments to one another.

Fred Bauer on an off-liberalism marked by care, duty, and solidarity rather than autonomy

Montaigne was charting new, and uniquely modern, territory. We embrace ourselves, as ourselves, and try to learn to be ourselves, rather than striving to become something other.

Erik Dempsey reviews Pierre Manent’s Montaigne: Life Without Law