Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

<p><b><i>Liberties</i></b> is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays about significant issues in culture and politics.</p><p>The Summer 2024 issue of <b><i>Liberties</i></b>: <b>Paul Berman</b> finds the history of antisemitism on the American left in a cartoon circulated at Harvard; <b>Sergei Lebedev</b> laments the limitations of Navalny''s understanding of Russia''s violent history; <b>Assaf Sharon</b> diagnoses the horrific condition of the Israeli-Palestinian “discourse”; <b>Rosanna Warren</b> celebrates <b>Wallace Stevens''s</b> first masterpiece; Using new sources about the pogrom at Kishinev, <b>Ekaterina Pravilova</b> considers the exacting task of analyzing victim testimony in the search for justice; <b>Carlos Fraenkel</b> adjudicates between Plato and Aristotle in their views of public philosophy;<b> Justin Smith-Ruiu </b>unhysterically explains what the real threats of AI are; <b>Kit Wilson</b> treats the death of tonality and the temptations of historicism in the understanding of music; <b>Benjamin Balint</b> recovers the legacy of an extraordinary Austrian Jewish writer, <b>Ilse Aichinger</b>; <b>Mitchell Abidor</b> recounts the intellectual odysseys and battles of the great anti-Stalinist writer, <b>Victor Serge</b>; <b>Matthew Zipf </b>uses the case of <b>Renata Adler''s</b> braid to explore the role of iconography in crafting history; <b>Adrian Nathan West </b>introduces perhaps the most overlooked deep thinker of our time, <b>Vladimir Jankélévitch</b>; <b>David Thomson</b> honors the intimate joy of small gestures in film; <b>Celeste Marcus </b>explains how to appreciate the brilliance of a great contemporary painter; <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> provides a close reading of an anti-Zionist screed from <b>Naomi Klein</b>; and, new poems by <b>Mosab Abu Toha</b> and <b>Daniel Halpern</b>.</p><p><b><i>Liberties </i></b>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 <b><i>Liberties</i></b>.</p>