Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics - Spring 2025

Liberties is a quarterly journal of serious, stylish, and controversial essays on culture and politics.
In the Spring 2025 issue: Yaroslav Hrytsak on the surprising lessons of setting the Ukrainian war in the context of history; David Bell asks if we shouldn’t still believe in the enlightenment; Durs Grünbein shares cautionary echoes in prose and poetry; Clifford Thompson argues for reviving an honest view of race; Alfred Brendel notes some of the ungenteel qualities of Papa Haydn; Agnes Callard investigates what we see when we look at colors; Enrique Krauze explains what happens when a hunger for power destroyed a democracy; James Traub investigates journalism’s tangled relationship with truth; Jaroslaw Anders makes a cautionary tale from the the trajectory of Polish poetry; Gary Saul Morson warns of the danger of ready-made beliefs, and Kenda Mutongi of the use and abuse of magical thinking; Celeste Marcus asks what the American Jew owes her country; Leon Wieseltier muses on the slumber, and slow destruction, of liberalism in America and Israel; and poetry from David Grossman, Paula Bohince, and Karl Kirchwey.
Liberties features essays from leading op-ed writers and scholars, award-winning writers, the next generation's rising talent, 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

Yaroslav Hrytsak is a professor of history at Ukrainian Catholic University and the author of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation.

Product details

• Authors: David Bell, Paula Bohince, Alfred Brendel, Pascal Bruckner, Agnes Callard, David Grossman, Durs Grunbein, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Anders Jaroslaw, Karl Kirchwey, Enrique Krauze, Gary Saul Morson, Kenda Mutongi, Clifford Thompson, James Traub
• Assisted by: Leon Wieseltier (Editor), Karen Leeder (Translation)
• Publisher: Liberties Journal Foundation
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9798985430288
• ISBN: 979-8-9854302-8-8
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education