Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 1

by Cass R. Sunstein, Carissa Veliz, Ekaterina Pravilova, Richard Taruskin, Claire Malroux

Overview

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”

“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”

"Invaluable"

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

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: Cass R. Sunstein - The Supreme Court Gone Wrong; Carissa Veliz - Digitization is Surveillance; Ekaterina Pravilova - The Autocrat’s War; Richard Taruskin - What is Bad Taste; Jonathan Zimmerman - Memoirs of a White Savior; Richard Wolin - The Cult of Carl Schmitt; Mark Polizzotti - Surrealism and Cancellation; Andrew Butterfield - Dante During Covid; Scott Spillman - The Strange History of the Slave Songs; Leora Batnitzky - The Sacrifice of Edith Stein; Helen Vendler - Sylvia Plath on Motherhood; Jared Marcel Pollen - Was Havel Right?; Celeste Marcus - The Curse of the Radical Israeli Right; Leon Wieseltier - The Future of Nature; and new poems by Claire Malroux, Marissa Grunes, Paula Bohince. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781735718781
Publisher:	Liberties Journal Foundation
Publication date:	10/25/2022
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley UniversityProfessor at Harvard Law School and is the author, among other books, of This is Not Normal.

Carissa Veliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data.

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.

Richard Taruskin, the great musicologist, died in July. He was the author, among many books, of the Oxford History of Western Music.

Claire Malroux is a French poet and translator and the author of Daybreak: New and Selected Poems translated by Marilyn Hacker. Henri Cole is an American poet and translator, and the author most recently of Blizzard: Poems.

Richard Wolin is a professor of intellectual history at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His new book, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology, will be published this winter.

Mark Polizzotti is the author among other books of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton, and a translator. He is the publisher and editor in chief of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author most recently of Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn.

Marissa Grunes is a poet whose work has appeared in Nautilus, Atlas Obscura, and The Paris Review.

Andrew Butterfield is a scholar of Renaissance and Baroque Art.

Scott Spillman is a writer based in Denver.

Leora Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Princeton.

Helen Vendler is the A Kingsley Porter UniversityProfessor Emerita at Harvard University. Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” is from Collected Poems (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992). Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Editorial matter copyright © 1981 by Ted Hughes.

Jared Marcel Pollen is a writer living in Prague. His book Venus&Document was published last spring.

Paula Bohince is the author of three books of poetry, including Swallows and Waves.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Liberties is a murderers row of important, fortifying, and inspiring writers.”  Aaron Sorkin

"If you wish to have your mind and spirit sharpened on the grinding stone of prescient, progressive and profound insights, Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.”  Wynton Marsalis

“Liberties sure is needed in these times.” Bill Maher

"It's like a meteor of intelligent substance that landed on my desk.” Thomas L. Friedman


"The appearance of Liberties in the middle of the pandemic was a rare source of light. Its intellectual independence is as admirable as its intellectual seriousness, and it also has style and wit. Something was missing in our culture, and here it is.” Tina Brown


”Liberties is a triumph for freedom of thought.”  Mario Vargas Llosa

"Liberty is under threat and Liberties girds us for the fight.” George Stephanopoulos 


“Liberties: Some serious food for thought.” Christiane Amanpour

“Liberties is full of observation, insight, and something you don’t find everywhere, something you don’t see coming: a kind of optimism, which shows clearly in its independent and all-inclusive mien.” Isaac Mizrahi

Editorial Reviews

"Liberties is a murderers row of important, fortifying, and inspiring writers.”  Aaron Sorkin

"If you wish to have your mind and spirit sharpened on the grinding stone of prescient, progressive and profound insights, Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” Wynton Marsalis

“Liberties sure is needed in these times.” Bill Maher

”Liberties is a triumph for freedom of thought.” Mario Vargas Llosa

"Liberty is under threat and Liberties girds us for the fight.” George Stephanopoulos 

"It's like a meteor of intelligent substance that landed on my desk.” Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times)

"The appearance of Liberties in the middle of the pandemic was a rare source of light. Its intellectual independence is as admirable as its intellectual seriousness, and it also has style and wit. Something was missing in our culture, and here it is.” Tina Brown

"Invaluable" David Brooks (New York Times)

“Liberties: Some serious food for thought” Christiane Amanpour

From the Publisher