Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Spring 2025 - Softcover

Hrytsak, Yaroslav; Bell, David; Grunbein, Durs

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985430288

Publisher: Liberties Journal, 2025

Synopsis

Liberties is a quarterly journal of serious, stylish, and controversial essays on culture and politics.

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

Liberties 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 Liberties.

About this title

About the Authors

Yaroslav Hrytsak is a professor of history at Ukrainian Catholic University and the author of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation.

David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University.

Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist. His most recent collection of poems in English is Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City. 

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liberties Journal
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985430288
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Wieseltier Leon, Marcus Celeste