{"product_id":"liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-volume-i-issue-1-paperback","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor in Chief), \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Managing Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Ignatieff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e features new essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This inaugural issue of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e includes: Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the environment; Laura Kipnis cheers transgression; David Grossman on literature and peace; Ramachandra Guha on the Indian tragedy; Thomas Chatterton Williams on the real James Baldwin; Mark Lilla on the power of indifference; Helen Vendler on Yeats' \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/i\u003e; Sean Wilentz on abolition and American origins; Adam Zagajeweski on Gustav Mahler; James Wolcott on America's modern Jacobins; Andrea Marcolongo on how language defines us; Eli Lake on the birth of American unexceptionalism; Sally Satel on the riddle of addiction; Moshe Halbertal on creating a democratic Jewish state; David Thomson on the wonder of Terrence Malick; Julius Margolin's memoir confronting hatred; Clara Collier on plague literature; Shawn McCreesh's personal look at a youthful community of addiction; new poetry from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Gl ck, Joshua Bennett, and Hannah Sullivan; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon Wieseltier is the editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michael Ignatieff is the President of Central European University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Laura Kipnis is a Professor in the department of Radio\/TV\/Film at Northwestern University and author most recently of \u003ci\u003eUnwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Grossman's most recent novel is \u003ci\u003eA Horse Walks into a Bar\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ramachandra Guha is the author of \u003ci\u003eGhandi: Before India\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhandi: The Years that Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eSelf Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hannah Sullivan is author of \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Revision\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Lilla is a Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Liberal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University, and the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Secret Disciplline: Yeats and Lyric Form\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eNo Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Adam Zagajewski's most recent book of poems is \u003ci\u003eAsymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Louise Glück is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, the author, among other books, of \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoems 1962-2012\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e James Wolcott is the author of \u003ci\u003eCritical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Andrea Marcolongo is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eil Lake writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sally Satel is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Irving Medical Center and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moshe Halbertal's book is \u003ci\u003eNhmanides: Law and Mysticism\u003c\/i\u003e was published this fall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, and author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Properity Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and The Sobbing School\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Thomson is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eMurder and the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e. 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