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

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.