# Negative and Positive Liberty

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/negative-and-positive-liberty>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** August 26, 2015

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George H. Smith criticizes Jason Brennan’s defense of positive liberty and his attempt to make positive liberty an essential part of libertarian theory.

[Originally published in essay form on December 11, 2012.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/negative-positive-liberty)

_Narrated by James Foster._