Liberties is a journal of Culture and Politics that features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders worldwide, 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. Highlights include Martha C. Nussbaum on not hating the body, David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg on what numbers cannot capture, Maria Stepanova on living out of time during Covid, Pratap Mehta on Indias Voltaire, Michael Kimmage on the American rise of decline, Nicholas Lemann on gaining his religion, Samuel Moyn on rights v. duties in contemporary liberalism, William Deresiewicz on our culture's obsession with origin stories, Alastair Macaulay on Merce Cunninghams singular beauty and importance, Helen Vendler on the tormented life of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on ancient philosophy as self-help, Philip Kitcher on the cost of pre-professionalization at college campuses, Celeste Marcus on The Night Porter as a love story, Leon Wieseltier on Art, Politics, And Confusion, and new poems by Andrew Motion, Collin Channer, and Aaron Fagan.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2022
Publisher: Liberties Journal Foundation

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

A Meteor of Intelligent Substance

Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is

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. In this issue of Liberties, highlights include:

Martha C. Nussbaum on not hating the body

David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg explain what numbers cannot capture

Maria Stepanova on living out of time during Covid

Pratap Mehta on Indias Voltaire

Michael Kimmage on American rise of decline

Nicholas Lemann on gaining his religion

Samuel Moyn on rights v. duties in contemporary liberalism

William Deresiewicz analyzes our culture's obsession with origin stories

Alastair Macaulay on Merce Cunninghams singular beauty and importance

Helen Vendler on the tormented life of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on ancient philosophy as self-help

Philip Kitcher on the cost of pre-professionalization at college campuses

Celeste Marcus on The Night Porter as a love story

Leon Wieseltier on Art, Politics, And Confusion

and new poems by Andrew Motion, Collin Channer, and Aaron Fagan.

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

Dimension: 197 x 152 x 57 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781735718750
Edition number: 2 ed