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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.
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.
About the author
Paul Berman is the author of numerous books, including
Terror and Liberalism.
Sergei Lebedev is a Russian novelist and the author of
Oblivion and Untraceable. This essay was translated by Antonina W. Bouis.
Assaf Sharon is a Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a senior fellow at Molad: The Center for the renewal of Israeli Democracy.
Kit Wilson is a writer and musician based in London.
Ekaterina Pravilova is a professor of history at Princeton, and the author of
A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia.
Rosanna Warren is an American poet and the author most recently of
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters.
Carlos Fraenkel is the James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Religion at McGill University.
Justin Smith-Ruiu is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris, and the author among other books of
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning.
Mitchell Abidor is an historian, writer and translator. Among his translated works is an anthology of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings,
Anarchists never Surrender.
Matthew Zipf is a writer currently at work on a biography of Renata Adler.
Adrian Nathan West is a writer and literary translator living in Spain. His first novel
My Father’s Diet was published in 2022.
David Thomson is the author of many books on film and culture, most recently
Disaster Mon Amour.
Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of
Liberties.
Leon Wieseltier is the editor of
Liberties.
Summary
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 includes: Paul Berman -- A Harvard Cartoon and World History; Sergei Lebedev -- The Heroic Illusion of Alexei Navalny; Assaf Sharon -- The October 7 "Debate"; Kit Wilson -- Music in the Prison of History; Ekaterina Pravilova -- Atrocity, Law, and Truth; Rosanna Warren -- Wallace Stevens' First Masterpiece; Carlos Fraenkel -- Is Public Philosophy Still Possible?; Justin Smith-Ruiu -- A Series of Small Apocalypses: On the Real Threats of AI; Mitchell Abidor -- The Inspiring Odyssey of Victor Serge; Matthew Zipf -- Cleopatra, Renata Adler, and the Meaning of History; Adrian Nathan West -- The Most Overlooked Deep Thinker of our Time; David Thomson -- Why Did Humphrey Bogart Cross the Street?: Celeste Marcus -- Epiphanies in an Artist's Studio; Leon Wieseltier -- A Pascal Homily by Naomi Klein, with A Commentary; 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 the political and cultural spectrum read and cherish Liberties.
