Liberties — A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of the world's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of our current culture and today's politics.

This summer issue of Liberties includes:

Elliot Ackerman on Veterans Are Not Victims
Durs Gr�nbein on Fascism and the Writer
R.B. Kitaj’s Three Tales
Thomas Chatterton Williams on The Blessings of Assimilation
Anita Shapira on The Fall of Israel’s House of Labor
Sally Satel on Woke Medicine
Matthew Stephenson On Corruption’s Honey and Poison
Helen Vender on Wallace Stevens
David Haziza on Illusions of Immunity
Paul Berman on the Library of America
Clara Collier’s nostalgia for strong women in film
Michael Kimmage on American Inquisitions
Leon Wieseltier (editor) on the high price of Stoicism
Celeste Marcus (managing editor) on a Native American Tragedy
And new poetry from Adam Zagajewski, A.E. Stallings, and Peg Boyers

About the Author

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.

Elliot Ackerman is a writer and former Marine and the author most recently, with Admiral James Stavridis, of 2034, A Novel of the Next World War.

Durs Gr�nbein is a German poet and essayist. His most recent book of poems is Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City. This essay was translated by Karen Leeder.

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author most recently of Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.

Anita Shapira is an Israeli historian. She is the author, among other books, of Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel and Israel: A History.

Adam Zagajewski, who died in Krakow in April 2021, was a Polish poet and essayist. His most recent book of poetry in English is Asymmetry. The poems in this issue were translated by Clare Cavanagh.

Sally Satel is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center.

R.B. Kitaj, the American painter, died in 2007. His autobiography, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter, was posthumously published in 2017.

Matthew Stephenson is the Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Helen Vendler is the author, among many other books, of Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire.

David Haziza is a French writer and the author of a translation and commentary on the Song of Songs.

A.E. Stallings is an American poet and translator living in Athens.

Paul Berman is the author of numerous books, including The Flight of the Intellectuals.

Clara Collier is a writer based in California.

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America and the author most recently of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy.

Peg Boyers is a poet and the executive editor of Salmagundi.

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