“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.
This issue of
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
.