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What Does It Mean to Be Free? Aaron Bastani Meets Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi’s life is awash with instances that question what it means to be free. From growing up in communist Albania to teaching at the London School of Economics, her own story is a window onto the complex connections between freedom and sovereignty, and between the personal and the political. Aaron Bastani speaks to Ypi about her new memoir, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History.

  • Published 22 May 2022

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