{"product_id":"liberties-journal-of-culture-and-politics-volume-ii-issue-2-paperback","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor in Chief), \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Managing Editor), \u003cb\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eLiberties \u003ci\u003eis THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ea journal of Culture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e 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.In this issue of \u003ci\u003eLiberties, \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights include: Martha C. Nussbaum on not hating the body; David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg explain what numbers cannot capture; Maria Stepanova on living out of time during Covid; Pratap Mehta on India's Voltaire; Michael Kimmage on American rise of decline; Nicholas Lemann on gaining his religion; Samuel Moyn on rights v. duties in contemporary liberalism; William Deresiewicz analyzes our culture's obsession with origin stories; Alastair Macaulay on Merce Cunningam's singular beauty and importance; Helen Vendler on the tormented life of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn on ancient philosophy as self-help; Philip Kitcher on the cost of pre-professionalization at college campuses; \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus \u003c\/b\u003eon The Night Porter as a love story; \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier \u003c\/b\u003eon Art, Politics, And Confusion;\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand, new poems by Andrew Motion, Collin Channer, and Aaron Fagan. \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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCeleste Marcus is the managing editor of \u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author most recently of \u003ci\u003eCitadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Nirenberg has been appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Ricardo Nirenberg is a mathematician. They are the authors of \u003ci\u003eUncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale Law School. He is the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eHumane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Stepanova is a Russian poet and essayist and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Memory of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. This essay has been translated by Alexandria Dugdale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian intellectual and the author of \u003ci\u003eBurden of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Lemann is a professor journalism at Columbia University and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eTransaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColin Channer is a Jamaican poet and the author most recently of \u003ci\u003eProvidential\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Kimmage is the Ordinary Professor and the Chair of the History Department at Catholic University. 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