Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1 (Paperback)

<b><i>"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance"</i></b><i><b>"Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is"</b></i><b><i>"</i>Liberties <i>is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."</i></b><b><i><br></i></b><i>Liberties, </i>a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. <br>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.<br>This issue of <i>Liberties</i> includes: new work from Nobel Prize winner <b>Mario Vargas Llosa</b>; drawings by <b>Leonard Cohen</b> published for the first time; <b>Mamtimin Ala's</b> essay on China's genocide of the Uyghurs; <b>Jaroslaw Anders'</b> analysis of the crisis in Belarus; <b>Cass R. Sunstein</b> on liberalism inebriated; <b>Richard Thompson Ford</b> on what slavery does and does not explain; <b>Sean Wilentz</b> on the historical strategy of the Republican Party; <b>Benjamin Moser</b> writes about translation as a form of tourism in literary life;<b> Jonathan Zimmerman</b> on the scandal of college teaching; <b>Mark Lilla</b> on cults of innocence and their victims; <b>Helen Vendler</b> on <b>Adrienne Rich</b>; <b>Holly Brewer</b> on race and enlightenment; <b>David Thomson</b> asks, What shall we watch now?; <b>Celeste Marcus</b> (managing editor) on the legend of <b>Alice Neel</b>; <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> (editor) on Zionism's beautiful stubbornness of survival; and new poetry from <b>Ange Mlinko</b> and <b>Shaul Tchernikhovsky</b>, translated by <b>Robert Alter</b>.<br> <p></p>