Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

02/06/2025

New on Liberties Sidebar… read the rest of Ihab Hassan’s piece on our website now. 🔗 in our story.

02/03/2025

In our winter issue, Elena Kagan insists on giving William Wyler his due. Read now!

02/02/2025

In honor of the month of love, we will gather twice to discuss this question— in NYC next week and in D.C. on the 15th. See you soon!

01/31/2025

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01/27/2025

New on Liberties Sidebar— read Anna Easton’s piece in full at the link in our story.

01/25/2025

Sally Satel documents the politicization of American psychotherapy in our winter issue.

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01/22/2025

Read Robert Alter’s piece unpacking the literary greatness of the book of Job in our winter issue.

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01/20/2025

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01/18/2025

Read more by the Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075-1141), newly translated by Dan Alter, in our winter issue.

01/16/2025

“In the theater of modern volatilities, the desiccated faith of such mainline Protestants has been shunted off stage, as though nothing poetic or vital ever happens behind the veil. The story that is about to unfold is a metaphysical high drama. The central event, told to me in the flat intonations of a country teacher’s voice, imbued my spiritual inheritance not long after my father cracked up and left our family, having been ‘Magnificently unprepared / For the long littleness of life’. Revisiting the story of Christmas on Red Hill, I find myself a stranger roaming in a landscape I know intimately, as though seeing the event that shaped me through a picture window whose frame I cannot breach”.

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01/13/2025

From our new Winter issue, Marci Shore on encountering Ukrainian thinkers under fire.

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01/10/2025

From our Winter issue, Tim Wu on decentralizing capitalism:

“Most people, I believe, are stuck. They may angrily believe that we are not on a sustainable course but they are uninspired by communism’s track record or the strongmen who came to power promising to fix everything…Most often over the last century, the real road to authoritarianism has been paved with the failure or inability of the democratic state to respond to widespread insecurity and grievance, whether economic precarity, challenges to self-identity, or fears about physical safety”.

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12/18/2024

11/27/2024

in conversation with Sinead O’Shea about her new documentary “Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story”

11/20/2024