Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.Michael Ignatieff is the President of Central European University.Laura Kipnis is a Professor in the department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University and author most recently of Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.David Grossman’s most recent novel is A Horse Walks into a Bar.Ramachandra Guha is the author of Ghandi: Before India and Ghandi: The Years that Changed the World.Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author most recently of Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.Hannah Sullivan is author of Three Poems and The Work of Revision.Mark Lilla is a Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and the author of The Once and Future Liberal.Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University, and the author of Our Secret Disciplline: Yeats and Lyric Form.Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author most recently of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.Adam Zagajewski’s most recent book of poems is Asymmetry.Louise Glück is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, the author, among other books, of Faithful and Virtuous Nightand Poems 1962-2012.James Wolcott is the author of Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades and Hurrahs.Andrea Marcolongo is the author of The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek.Eil Lake writes a column for Bloomberg Opinion.Sally Satel is a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.Moshe Halbertal’s book is Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism was published this fall.Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, and author of Being Properity Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and The Sobbing School.David Thomson is the author most recently of Murder and the Movies. His new books A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors and Disaster Mon Amour will be published in 2021.Julius Margolin was the author of Journey to the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag recently published by Oxford University Press.Clara Collier is a writer living in California.Shawn McCreesh is a writer living in Washington, DC.