We think we understand what freedom is. But according to anthropologist and co-author of The Dawn of Everything, David Wengrow, humans have lost the ability to imagine and exercise certain freedoms that were commonplace in our ancestral past. Placing a value on liberty is not a uniquely Western value, as we have often been told. Freedom has been central to human history and the human story. We are not driven solely by evolution or societal forces; human decisions drive history. And they still do.
Part One: Three Forms of Human Freedom
Part Two: A New Understanding of World History
