Book

The Age of Choice

A History of Freedom in Modern Life

Sophia Rosenfeld

2025

Princeton University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Argument

Why an Abundance of Choice Is Not the Same as Freedom

It’s only in recent history that freedom has come to mean having a huge array of choices in life. Did we take a wrong turn?

by Sophia Rosenfeld via Aeon on October 16, 2025
Book Review

Americans Are Tired of Choice

How did freedom become synonymous with having lots of options?

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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on June 23, 2025
Book Review

My Freedom, My Choice

A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books
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on June 5, 2025
Q&A

Choice and Its Discontents

Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. Sophia Rosenfeld exposes the complex legacy of this idea.

by Sophia Rosenfeld, Daniel Falcone via Jacobin
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on April 22, 2025
Book Review

The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice

How endless options became our only option.

by Andrew Lanham via The New Republic
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on April 11, 2025

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