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
:
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
.
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