THE COVID pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by answers that their own government given to these questions, resorting instead a libertarian rhetoric argue for more permissive approach public health regulation. As several commentators pointed out, there is marked asymmetry in this Conservative hostility legal restricti...

IN ESCAPE FROM LEVIATHAN, J.C. Lester argues for what he calls “the compatibility thesis.” This thesis states that, in practice, and in the long term, there are no systematic clashes between interpersonal liberty, general welfare, and market anarchy (Lester, 2012, 2). Lester offers an explanation of the conception of liberty expressed in this compatibility thesis as absence of imposed cost. He ...

Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ regards both Hobbes and Constant as supporting the negative version. Both took a favourable view freedom to live one pleases. But this shared preference arose from radically different overall philosophies. Hobbes’s support for ‘the silence laws’ reflected his happiness preference-satisfaction. Constant’s sphere absolute rights was supplemented by active...

Core-to-core communication bandwidth is critical for high-performance pipeline-parallel programs. Hardware communication queues are unlikely to be implemented and are perhaps unnecessary. This paper presents Liberty Queues, a high-performance lock-free software-only ring buffer, and describes the porting effort from the original x86-64 implementation to IA-64. Liberty Queues achieve a bandwidth...