Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics Spring 2025

<p><b><i>Liberties</i></b> is a quarterly journal of serious, stylish, and controversial essays on culture and politics.</p><p>In the Spring 2025 issue: <b>Yaroslav Hrytsak</b> on the surprising lessons of setting the Ukrainian war in the context of history; <b>David Bell</b> asks if we shouldn’t still believe in the enlightenment; <b>Durs Grünbein</b> shares cautionary echoes in prose and poetry; <b>Clifford Thompson</b> argues for reviving an honest view of race; <b>Alfred Brendel</b> notes some of the ungenteel qualities of Papa Haydn; <b>Agnes Callard</b> investigates what we see when we look at colors; <b>Enrique Krauze</b> explains what happens when a hunger for power destroyed a democracy; <b>James Traub</b> investigates journalism’s tangled relationship with truth; <b>Jaroslaw Anders</b> makes a cautionary tale from the the trajectory of Polish poetry; <b>Gary Saul Morson</b> warns of the danger of ready-made beliefs, and <b>Kenda Mutongi</b> of the use and abuse of magical thinking; <b>Celeste Marcus</b> asks what the American Jew owes her country; <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> muses on the slumber, and slow destruction, of liberalism in America and Israel; and poetry from <b>David Grossman</b>, <b>Paula Bohince</b>, and <b>Karl Kirchwey</b>.</p><p><b><i>Liberties</i></b> 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 political and cultural spectrum read and cherish <b><i>Liberties</i>.</b></p>