Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics - Volume II, Issue 1

“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 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.

  

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“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”

"Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."

  

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Authors	Mamtimin Ala, Ala Mamtimin, Jaroslaw Anders, Anders Jaroslaw, Brewer Holly, Leonard Cohen, Cohen Leonard, Richard Thompson Ford, Ford Richard Thompson, Lilla Mark, Ange Mlinko, Mlinko Ange, Benjamin Moser, Moser Benjamin, Sunstein Cass R., Tchernikhovsky Shaul, Thomson David, Vendler Helen, Sean Wilentz, Wilentz Sean, Jonathan Zimmerman, Zimmerman Jonathan
Assisted by	Leon Wieseltier (Editor), Wieseltier Leon (Editor), West Adrian Nathan (Translation)
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	26.10.2021
EAN	9781735718743
ISBN	978-1-73571-874-3
No. of pages	391
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, ART / Art & Politics, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events

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• Authors: Mamtimin Ala, Ala Mamtimin, Jaroslaw Anders, Anders Jaroslaw, Brewer Holly, Leonard Cohen, Cohen Leonard, Richard Thompson Ford, Ford Richard Thompson, Lilla Mark, Ange Mlinko, Mlinko Ange, Benjamin Moser, Moser Benjamin, Sunstein Cass R., Tchernikhovsky Shaul, Thomson David, Vendler Helen, Sean Wilentz, Wilentz Sean, Jonathan Zimmerman, Zimmerman Jonathan
• Assisted by: Leon Wieseltier (Editor), Wieseltier Leon (Editor), West Adrian Nathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2021
• EAN: 9781735718743
• ISBN: 978-1-73571-874-3
• No. of pages: 391
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, ART / Art & Politics, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events