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This article appraises the books "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values III," edited by S. McMurrin; and "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice," by M.J. Sandel. The first book will be of interest to political theorists mainly for the long paper by John Rawls on "The Basic Liberties and Their Priority" which opens the book. This belongs to an overlapping series of papers in which Rawls has been attempting to revise certain aspects of "A Theory of Justice" to meet critical objections. These revisions make it easier to justify the precedence Rawls gives to the familiar list of liberal freedoms in his theory of justice.