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

"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.