Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This issue of Liberties includes: Anthony Julius on censorship of the arts; Nicholas Lemann on rescuing capitalism; Alfred Brendel on playing Beethoven; Paul Berman on the George Floyd uprising; Fouad Ajami's story of an honor killing; Jack Goldsmith on conservatives and the courts; Edward Luttwak on understanding China; Roberto Calasso on when journals mattered; Walter Scheidel on life after covid; Helen Vendler on the poet Robert Hayden; Robert Alter on Lolita today; Daryl Michael Scott on the 13th Amendment; Alastair Macaulay on Balanchine; David Greenberg on renaming our heritage; new poetry from Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, and Rosanna Warren; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2

Goldsmith, Jack

Vendler, Helen

Lemann, Nicholas

Ajami, Fouad

BERMAN, PAUL

Graham, Jorie

Alter, Robert

Greenberg,David

BRENDEL, Alfred

Julius, Anthony

Hutchinson, Ishion

Scott, Daryl Michael

Warren, Rosanna

Macaulay, Alastair

Sheidel, Walter

Luttwak, Edward

Calasso, Roberto

Arts & Photography

Liberties Journal

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of the world's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of our current culture and today's politics. This spring issue of Liberties includes: Giles Kepel on the Murder of Samuel Paty; Ingrid Rowland's Long Live the Classics ; Vladimir Kara-Murza Surviving Putin's Poisons; Paul Starr on Reckoning with National Failure from Covid; Becca Rothfeld on Today's Sanctimony Literature; Enrique Krauze explores What is Latin America?; William Deresiewicz on Why Great Visual Art Forces Us to Think; Benjamin Moser on Rediscovering Frans Hals; David Nirenberg on What We Can Learn from Earlier Plagues; Agnes Callard's view of Romance without Love, Love without Romance; Mitchell Abidor looks back to "Social Media" in 1895 to Understand a Crowd's "Wisdom"; The Tallis Scholars' Peter Phillips on the Secrets of Josquin; David Thomson on Movies' Poetic Desire; Poetry from Henri Cole, Chaim Nachman Bialik, and Paul Muldoon; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) asks "Where Are the Americans?" and Celeste Marcus (managing editor) writes for a Pluralistic Heart.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 3

Literature & Fiction

Starr, Paul

THOMSON, David

Moser, Benjamin

Cole, Henri

MULDOON, Paul

Rowland, Ingrid

Deresiewicz, William

KRAUZE, ENRIQUE

Callard, Agnes

Nirenberg, David

Abidor, Mitchell

PHILLIPS, Peter

Kepel, Giles

Kara-Murza, Vladimir

Rothfeld, Becca

Bialik, Chaim Nacham

Essays & Correspondence

"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of the world's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of our current culture and today's politics. This summer issue of Liberties includes: Elliot Ackerman on Veterans Are Not Victims; Durs Grünbein on Fascism and the Writer; R.B. Kitaj's Three Tales; Thomas Chatterton Williams on The Blessings of Assimilation; Anita Shapira on The Fall of Israel's House of Labor; Sally Satel on Woke Medicine; Matthew Stephenson On Corruption's Honey and Poison; Helen Vender on Wallace Stevens; David Haziza on Illusions of Immunity; Paul Berman on the Library of America; Clara Collier's nostalgia for strong women in film; Michael Kimmage on American Inquisitions; Leon Wieseltier (editor) on the high price of Stoicism; Celeste Marcus (managing editor) on a Native American Tragedy; and new poetry from Adam Zagajewski, A.E. Stallings, and Peg Boyers.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 4

Ackerman, Elliot

Stephenson, Matthew

Grünbein, Durs

Collier, Clara

Zagajewski, Adam

Kimmage, Michael

Williams, Thomas Chatterton

Shapira, Anita

Satel, Sally

Stallings, A.E.

Kitaj, R.B.

Haziza, David

Boyers, Peg

Review\n"If you wish to have your mind and spirit sharpened on the grinding stone of prescient, progressive and profound insights, Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” Wynton Marsalis 
"This is a murderers row of writers whose voices have never been more important, more inspiring or more comforting than they are in Liberties.” Aaron Sorkin 
"Liberty is under threat and Liberties girds us for the fight.” George Stephanopoulos 
“Liberties sure is needed in these times.” Bill Maher 
"It's like a meteor of intelligent substance that landed on my desk.” Thomas L. Friedman 
"The appearance of Liberties in the middle of the pandemic was a rare source of light. Its intellectual independence is as admirable as its intellectual seriousness, and it also has style and wit. Something was missing in our culture, and here it is.” Tina Brown 
“Liberties: Some serious food for thought” Christiane Amanpour 
“Liberties is full of observation, insight, and something you don’t find everywhere, something you don’t see coming: a kind of optimism, which shows clearly in its independent and all-inclusive mien.” Isaac Mizrahi\n“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance” 
“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is” 
"Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” 
Liberties, Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties brings serious and independent discourse that a thoughtful public and private life requires -- stylish and controversial essays by significant writers and thinkers the world over; and, introduces new writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics. 
This fall issue of Liberties includes: a new work from Mario Vargas Llosa; original drawings by Leonard Cohen; Mamtimin Ala on What the Uyghurs Know; Jaroslaw Anders on What is Belarus?; Cass R. Sunstein on Liberalism Inebriated; Richard Thompson Ford on What Does Slavery Explain?; Sean Wilentz on The Tyranny of the Minority; Benjamin Moser writes Against Translation; Jonathan Zimmerman on the Scandal of College Teaching; Mark Lilla on Cults of Innocence and Their Victims; Helen Vendler on Adrienne Rich; Holly Brewer on Race and Enlightenment; David Thomson asks What Shall We Watch Now?; Celeste Marcus (managing editor) on the Legend of Alice Neel; Leon Wieseltier (editor) on Zionism's Beautiful Stubbornness of Survival; and, new poetry from Ange Mlinko and Shaul Tchernikhovsky, translated by Robert Alter.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1

Lilla, Mark

Wilentz, Sean

Zimmerman, Jonathan

Ala, Mamtimin

Ford, Richard Thompson

Anders, Jaroslaw

Mlinko, Ange

Brewer, Holly

Tchernikhovsky, Shaul

COHEN,LEONARD

Sunstein, Cass. R.

"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics.In this issue of Liberties, highlights include: Martha C. Nussbaum on not hating the body; David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg explain what numbers cannot capture; Maria Stepanova on living out of time during Covid; Pratap Mehta on India's Voltaire; Michael Kimmage on American rise of decline; Nicholas Lemann on gaining his religion; Samuel Moyn on rights v. duties in contemporary liberalism; William Deresiewicz analyzes our culture's obsession with origin stories; Alastair Macaulay on Merce Cunningam's singular beauty and importance; Helen Vendler on the tormented life of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on ancient philosophy as self-help; Philip Kitcher on the cost of pre-professionalization at college campuses; Celeste Marcus on The Night Porter as a love story; Leon Wieseltier on Art, Politics, And Confusion; and, new poems by Andrew Motion, Collin Channer, and Aaron Fagan.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2

MOTION, Andrew

Moyn, Samuel

Kitcher, Philip

Nussbaum, Martha C.

Stepanova, Maria

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

Fagan, Aaron

Quinn, Elisabeth Lasch

Channer, Collin

"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" "Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics. In this issue of Liberties, highlights include: Laura Kipnis on how to think (and how not to think) about gender; Robert Kagan on the values that define American identity; Andrea Marcolongo on the role of the intellectual in contemporary times; Michael Ignatieff on whether freedom of thought is possible in our highly politicized culture; David Greenberg on journalism's change of objectivity over time; Jack Goldsmith on conservatives' use of social media; Bruce Jones on the response to China's threat; Clara Collier on powerful women in old Westerns; Sir Robert Francis Cooper on Burma; Jared Marcel Pollen on Vaclav Havel's complicated legacy; Mitch Abidor's defense of Francois Truffaut; Andrew Butterfield on the creative inspiration from Dante's exile; David Bell on fascism's identity in France; Steven Nadler on Spinoza's ostracism; new literary criticism from Helen Vendler, and, poetry from Charis Vlavianos, Nathaniel Mackey, and Durs Grünbein.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 3

Bell, David A.

MacKey, Nathaniel

Kipnis, Laura

Abbot, Dorian

LÉVY, Bernard-Henri

Jones, Bruce D.

COOPER, ROBERT

Nadler, Steven M.

Vlavianos, Haris

Jensen, Morten Høi

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance” 
“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is” 
"Liberties is THE place to be.”\nLiberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time.\nLiberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics.\nIn this edition of Liberties: Oksana Forostyna’s A Diary from Lviv; Robert Kagan argues All Wars are Wars of Choice; Justin E. H. Smith grapples with The Gamification of Reality; James Wolcott questions The Poetry of Rock; Pascal Bruckner sees The Oblomovization of the West; William Deresiewicz on higher education’s Schools for Souls; Jaroslaw Anders writes An Open Letter to an Enemy in My Native Land; Elliot Ackerman reveals The Politicization of the American Military; Jonathan Baskin on Sheila Heti and the Fight for Art; A Conversation About Modern History between Isaiah Berlin and Adam Michnik; David Thomson goes back to Chinatown with Roman Polanski and John Huston; Helen Vendler reads John Donne for How to Talk to God; Celeste Marcus on Why Women Mortify Themselves; Leon Wieseltier on Ukraine and Us; and, poetry from Valzhyna Mort, Daryna Gladun, Lesyk Panasiuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Henri Cole, Claire Malroux, La Fontaine, and Devin Johnston.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 4

KAGAN, ROBERT

BERLIN, ISAIAH

LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE

Mort, Valzhyna

Wolcott, James

Bruckner, Pascal

Johnston, Denis

Michnik, Adam

Malroux, Claire

Forostyna, Oksana

Smith, Justin E.H.

Baskin, Jonathan

Gladun, Daryna

Panasiuk, Lesyk

Greenberg, Uri Tzvi

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance” 
“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is” 
"Invaluable"\n"Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” 
Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. 
Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics. 
In this issue of Liberties: Cass R. Sunstein - The Supreme Court Gone Wrong; Carissa Veliz - Digitization is Surveillance; Ekaterina Pravilova - The Autocrat’s War; Richard Taruskin - What is Bad Taste; Jonathan Zimmerman - Memoirs of a White Savior; Richard Wolin - The Cult of Carl Schmitt; Mark Polizzotti - Surrealism and Cancellation; Andrew Butterfield - Dante During Covid; Scott Spillman - The Strange History of the Slave Songs; Leora Batnitzky - The Sacrifice of Edith Stein; Helen Vendler - Sylvia Plath on Motherhood; Jared Marcel Pollen - Was Havel Right?; Celeste Marcus - The Curse of the Radical Israeli Right; Leon Wieseltier - The Future of Nature; and new poems by Claire Malroux, Marissa Grunes, Paula Bohince.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 1

Taruskin, Richard

Wolin, Richard

Polizzotti, Mark

Butterfield, Andrew

Pravilova, Ekaterina

Batnitzky, Leora

Véliz, Carissa

Grunes, Marissa

Spillman, Scott

Pollen, Jared Marcel

Bohince, Paula

<div class=""> <div class="">Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics,&nbsp;is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.&nbsp;</div> </div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">In this issue of&nbsp;Liberties:&nbsp;Michael Ignatieff&nbsp;- The Mind's Emancipation;&nbsp;Mary Gaitskill&nbsp;-&nbsp;The Trials of the Young;&nbsp;Sergei Lebedev&nbsp;- Putin's Philosopher: A Memoir;&nbsp;Michael Walzer&nbsp;- Moral Concern;&nbsp;Justin E. H. Smith&nbsp;- The Happiness Industrial Complex;&nbsp;Andrew Scull&nbsp;- The Fashions in Trauma;&nbsp;David A. Bell&nbsp;- The Triumph of Anti-Politics in America;&nbsp;Michael Kimmage&nbsp;- A Defense of Delight in a Dark Time;&nbsp;Robert Alter&nbsp;- Proust and the Mystification of the Jews;&nbsp;Steven B. Smith&nbsp;- What is a Statesman?;&nbsp;Benjamin Moser&nbsp;- Rembrandt's shadows;&nbsp;Helen Vendler&nbsp;- The Poetry of Charm;&nbsp;Celeste Marcus&nbsp;- Priorism, or the Joshua Katz Affair;&nbsp;Leon Wieseltier&nbsp;- Problems and Struggles; and, new poems by&nbsp;Karen Solie,&nbsp;Adam Zagajewski, and&nbsp;John Hodgen.</div> <div class=""> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Published quarterly,&nbsp;Liberties,&nbsp;is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.</div> Liberties&nbsp;features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and introduces the next generation of writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics.&nbsp;Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part of the&nbsp;Liberties&nbsp;series. There's a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and activists from across the cultural and political spectrum read and cherish&nbsp;Liberties. </div>

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 2

GAITSKILL, Mary

Walzer, Michael

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Scull, Andrew

Solie, Karen

Lebedev, Sergei

Smith, Steven B.

Hodgen, John

Bouis, Antonia

Kimmage, Michael C.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 3

Kirchick, James

Delbanco, Andrew

Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi

Leffler, Melvyn P.

Jacoby, Tamar

Ryan, Declan

Lightweiss-Goff, Jennie

Psarapolous, John

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