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Readers Respond to the December 2025 Issue

A big thank you to Douglas Starr for his cover story (“Gimme Shelter,” December 2025) on Best Friends Animal Society. Starr ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher, explored how society binds individuals. His famous work, The Social Contract, argues that people are born free but become constrained by social structures.