“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”
“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”
"Liberties is THE place to be."
Liberties
, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time.
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
:
Laura Kipnis
on Genders Without Fear
Dorian Abbot’s
call to arms - Science to Politics: Drop Dead
Bernard Henri-Lévy
on What is Reading?
Bruce D. Jones
on today’s reality of Taiwan, China, America
David Greenberg
examines The War on Objectivity
Helen Vendler
on Art vs. Stereotypes through the work of
Marianne Moore
Ingrid Rowland
captures Thucydides on our Conflicts
David A. Bell
exposes the Greatest Enemy of Democracy in France
Robert Cooper
reports on Myanmar, Atrocity in the Garden of Eden
Steven M. Nadler
on Bans and Excommunications, Then and Now
Morten Høi Jensen
on the State of Literary Biography
Clara Collier
on Women with Whips — Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck; Celeste Marcus on Unknown Heroes of Modern Art
Leon Wieseltier
reveals Christianism in Modern Politics
And new poetry from
Durs Grünbein, Nathaniel Mackey
, and
Haris Vlavianos