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Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays about significant issues in culture and politics.In the Fall 2024 issue of Liberties: Sean Wilentz bluntly defines the stakes of this election; Katherine C. Epstein laments the death of research and its consequences for our culture; Ryan Ruby presides over the unlikely meeting of Emily Dickinson and Franz Kafka; Mark Edmondson diagnoses the fever in contemporary politics; Sohrab Ahmari exposes the sordid depths to which rightwing extremism has sunk; Jonathan Zimmerman pushes back against the opponents of higher education; Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson argue that “We The People” is not as clear as it looks; William Deresiewicz describes what is absent from social relations in America; Ramachandra Guha introduces the founding poet of the environmental movement, Rabindranath Tagore; Ange Mlinko resurrects the art of Amy Clampitt; Steven B. Smith reveals what is truly revolutionary about our sixteenth president; in Teaching Ellison by Annie Abrams: A high school teacher, a great writer, and how to live; Celeste Marcus on a film, a great director, and the rise of fascism; Leon Wieseltier examines the grotesque intellectual underpinnings of Trumpism and Vanceism; and new poetry from David Grossman, Erica McAlpine and Devin Johnston.Liberties features essays from leading op-ed writers and scholars, award-winning and well-known non-fiction and fiction writers, next generation rising talents, and poets from around the world.There's a reason why cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and engaged citizens from across political and cultural spectrum read and cherish Liberties.

Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays about significant issues in culture and politics.The Summer 2024 issue of Liberties: Paul Berman finds the history of antisemitism on the American left in a cartoon circulated at Harvard; Sergei Lebedev laments the limitations of Navalny's understanding of Russia's violent history; Assaf Sharon diagnoses the horrific condition of the Israeli-Palestinian “discourse”; Rosanna Warren celebrates Wallace Stevens's first masterpiece; Using new sources about the pogrom at Kishinev, Ekaterina Pravilova considers the exacting task of analyzing victim testimony in the search for justice; Carlos Fraenkel adjudicates between Plato and Aristotle in their views of public philosophy; Justin Smith-Ruiu unhysterically explains what the real threats of AI are; Kit Wilson treats the death of tonality and the temptations of historicism in the understanding of music; Benjamin Balint recovers the legacy of an extraordinary Austrian Jewish writer, Ilse Aichinger; Mitchell Abidor recounts the intellectual odysseys and battles of the great anti-Stalinist writer, Victor Serge; Matthew Zipf uses the case of Renata Adler's braid to explore the role of iconography in crafting history; Adrian Nathan West introduces perhaps the most overlooked deep thinker of our time, Vladimir Jankélévitch; David Thomson honors the intimate joy of small gestures in film; Celeste Marcus explains how to appreciate the brilliance of a great contemporary painter; Leon Wieseltier provides a close reading of an anti-Zionist screed from Naomi Klein; and, new poems by Mosab Abu Toha and Daniel Halpern.Liberties features essays from leading op-ed writers and scholars, award-winning and well-known non-fiction and fiction writers, next generation rising talents, and poets from around the world. There's a reason why cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and engaged citizens from across political and cultural spectrum read and cherish Liberties.

Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this edition of Liberties:  Carissa Veliz — The Technology of Bullshit; Adam Kirsch — LiteratureGPT; Ryan Ruby — Reading and Time; Michael Walzer — Notes on A Dangerous Mistake; Reuel Marc Gerecht — Saudi Arabia: The Chimera of a Grand Alliance; David A. Bell — The Anti-Liberal; Emily Ogden — Dam Nation; Stephen Darwall — Money, Justice, and Effective Altruism; Kian Tajbakhsh — The Problem with Anti-Colonialism: Recovering Albert Memmi; Wendy Gan — Antigone in Hong Kong; Jennie Lightweis-Goff — Concept Creep: A Progressive’s Lament; John Summers — In The Counterlife of Autism; Helen Vendler —  Can Poetry Be Abstract?; Celeste Marcus — After Rape: A Guide for the Torment; Leon Wieseltier — On Savagery and Solidarity; and, poetry by A.E. Stallings and Ange Mlinko. Published quarterly, Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.Liberties 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. Nobel Prize winners, leading scholars, well-known fiction and non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part Liberties journal.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 Liberties.

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).

“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.

?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.