"A French master's final reflections on liberty and equality, in which he asks 'where virtue is to be found' in free societies given over to cultivating the self rather than the common good. An Olympian meditation from a great mind, ably presented by two wise commentators, Mark Lilla and Pierre Manent." --Michael Ignatieff, Central European University, Vienna " Liberty and Equality is the best place to start with Raymond Aron's thought. Foregrounding the liberties that define free societies against tyrannical ones, Aron provides a vision--still relevant today--of social and political freedom as a complex bequest to inherit and improve." --Samuel Moyn, Yale University "With Aron's characteristic lucidity, sobriety, fair-mindedness, and good sense, Liberty and Equality dispels abstraction, pretense, and cant, and affirms liberty in all its complexity and difficulty. The effect is intellectually tonic, even exhilarating." --Joshua L. Cherniss, author of Liberalism in Dark Times "This fantastic translation of Raymond Aron's last lecture makes available, for the first time to the English reader, a concise and meaningful overview of his fundamental ideas.

It is a great introduction to Aron's thought, and a recommended read for anybody interested in thinking about liberty, from both a historical and a political perspective." --Lucia Rubinelli, Yale University.