"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance"
"Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is"
"Libertiesis 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.
This issue of Liberties includes:
New work from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa
Drawings by Leonard Cohen published for the first time
Mamtimin Ala's essay on China's genocide of the Uyghurs
Jaroslaw Anders' analysis of the crisis in Belarus
Cass R. Sunstein on liberalism inebriated
Richard Thompson Ford on what slavery does and does not explain
Sean Wilentz on the historical strategy of the Republican Party
Benjamin Moser writes about translation as a form of tourism in literary life
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
