Intel­li­gent Life asks what free­doms have we gained and lost that matter?

Free­dom is cen­tral to democ­racy. That fact doesn’t change, but the amount and type of free­dom that we have does. And it feels as if it has changed dra­mat­i­cally in the past few years. With the Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Human Rights approach­ing its 60th birth­day, Intel­li­gent Life asked 11 emi­nent peo­ple from dif­fer­ent walks of life to look back over their adult life­time and name the free­dom we have gained and lost that means the most to them. They were free to take free­dom in any sense, polit­i­cal or cul­tural, social or tech­no­log­i­cal. What mat­tered was that it mat­tered to them.

So far, 10 have been inter­viewed: Richard Dawkins, Shami Chakrabarti, Neal Asch­er­son, Charles Moore, Noreena Hertz, Geof­frey Robert­son, Tariq Ramadan, Peter Tatchell, Andrew Roberts and Daphne Park.