Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This inaugural issue of Liberties includes: Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the environment; Laura Kipnis cheers transgression; David Grossman on literature and peace; Ramachandra Guha on the Indian tragedy; Thomas Chatterton Williams on the real James Baldwin; Mark Lilla on the power of indifference; Helen Vendler on Yeats' The Second Coming; Sean Wilentz on abolition and American origins; Adam Zagajeweski on Gustav Mahler; James Wolcott on America's modern Jacobins; Andrea Marcolongo on how language defines us; Eli Lake on the birth of American unexceptionalism; Sally Satel on the riddle of addiction; Moshe Halbertal on creating a democratic Jewish state; David Thomson on the wonder of Terrence Malick; Julius Margolin's memoir confronting hatred; Clara Collier on plague literature; Shawn McCreesh's personal look at a youthful community of addiction; new poetry from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Gl ck, Joshua Bennett, and Hannah Sullivan; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Fall 2021

Literature & Fiction

Lilla, Mark

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Kipnis, Laura

Literary

Liberties Journal

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: Winter 2021

Lemann, Nicholas

BERMAN, PAUL

Julius, Anthony

Arts & Photography

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: Spring 2021

Rowland, Ingrid

Kepel, Giles

Rothfeld, Becca

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: Summer 2021

Ackerman, Elliot

Grünbein, Durs

KITAJ, R.B.

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.

Ala, Mamtimin

Anders, Jaroslaw

"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: Winter 2022

Moyn, Samuel

Nussbaum, Martha C.

Stepanova, Maria

"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: Spring 2022

Vendler, Helen

Greenberg,David

“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: Summer 2022

KAGAN, ROBERT

Forostyna, Oksana

Smith, Justin E.H.

“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: Fall 2022

Pravilova, Ekaterina

Véliz, Carissa

Sunstein, Cass. R.

<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: Winter 2023

GAITSKILL, Mary

Lebedev, Sergei

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