Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics Summer 2024 - Volume 5, Issue 4
<p><i><b>Liberties</b></i> is a quarterly journal of serious, stylish, and controversial essays on culture and politics.</p> <p>In the Summer 2025 issue: <b>Ian Buruma</b> on staying decent in an indecent society; <b>John Banville</b> on Ireland's poets and Ireland's troubles; <b>Sergei Lebedev</b> on Putin's road from Chechnya to Ukraine; <b>Arash Azizi</b> on art for art's sake under Iranian oppression; <b>Christina Cacouris</b> on the style of grief; <b>Lily Lynch</b> on a rendezvous on the Bosphorus; <b>Adam Kirsch</b> on what one liberal learned from an evening of Ibsen; <b>Declan Ryan</b> on the uncanny achievement of C. K. Williams; <b>Carlos Fraenkel</b> on pain, happiness, and an ancient dispute; <b>Jennie Lightweis-Goff</b> on how Stephen Foster helped invent us all; <b>Patrick Mackie</b> on why Naples is the most musical city in the world; <b>Abhrajyoti Chakraborty</b> on the brutal genius of Saadat Hasan Manto; <b>Justin Smith-Ruiu</b> on the wartime career of analytic philosophy; <b>Michael Kimmage</b> on F. Scott Fitzgerald's foolishness and profundity; <b>Mischa Shuman</b> on saying farewell to a cruel father; <b>Greg Gerke</b> contemplates Rembrandt at the Met; <b>Morten Høi Jensen</b> on why foreign students may never aspire to come to America again; <b>Celeste Marcus</b> reports from the West Bank on Israeli settler terrorism; and <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> on Trump's moronic and dangerous war on culture.</p> <p>As well as poetry from <b>Henri Cole</b> and <b>Paul Pastor</b>.</p> <p><i><b>Liberties</b></i> 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 the political and cultural spectrum read and cherish <i><b>Liberties</b></i>.</p>