{"product_id":"liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-volume-i-issue-2-paperback","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Managing Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Julius\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This issue of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e includes: Anthony Julius on censorship of the arts; Nicholas Lemann on rescuing capitalism; Alfred Brendel on playing Beethoven; Paul Berman on the George Floyd uprising; Fouad Ajami's story of an honor killing; Jack Goldsmith on conservatives and the courts; Edward Luttwak on understanding China; Roberto Calasso on when journals mattered; Walter Scheidel on life after covid; Helen Vendler on the poet Robert Hayden; Robert Alter on \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e today; Daryl Michael Scott on the 13th Amendment; Alastair Macaulay on Balanchine; David Greenberg on renaming our heritage; new poetry from Jorie Graham, Ishion Hutchinson, and Rosanna Warren; 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 Anthony Julius is a lawyer in the United Kingdom, and the author, among other books, of \u003ci\u003eTransgressions: The Offences of Art\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nicholas Lemann is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author of \u003ci\u003eTransaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alfred Brendel, the pianist, is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eThe Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paul Berman is the author of \u003ci\u003ePower and the Idealists\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jorie Graham's \u003ci\u003eRunaway\u003c\/i\u003e, her fifteenth volume of poetry, was published last fall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fouad Ajami, the author of many books about the Arab world, died in 2014. \"The Story of Dalal\" is taken from his unpublished memoir \u003ci\u003eWhen Magic Ends\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jack Goldsmith teaches law at Harvard University. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eIn Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edward Luttwak has written many books on strategy, including \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of China vs. The Logic of Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Roberto Calasso is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eThe Celestial Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e. This essay was translated by Richard Dixon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ishion Hutchinson's \u003ci\u003eHouse of Lords and Commons\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of poems, was published in 2016. He teaches at Cornell University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Walter Scheidel is professor of Classics and History at Stanford and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Helen Vender is the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert Alter is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. His new book, \u003ci\u003eNabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense\u003c\/i\u003e, will appear this spring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Daryl Michael Scott is professor of History at Howard University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rosanna Warren is an American poet and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eMax Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alastair Macaulay is a critic and historian of the performing arts who was the chief dance critic of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the chief theater critic of \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Lincoln Kirstein's hand-written diaries, quoted in this essay, are kept in the NewYork Public Library for the Performing Arts and are cited here by permission of his literary executor, Nicholas Jenkins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Greenberg is a historian at Rutgers University. 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