Contributors

  • Mamtimin Ala was born in East Turkistan in 1971. He is the author of Worse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide.
  • Richard Thompson Ford teaches law at Stanford University and is the author of The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Relations Worse.
  • Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. This essay was translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
  • Jaroslaw Anders is the author most recently of Between Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose.
  • Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author of The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.
  • Ange Mlinko teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her new collection of poems, Venice, will appear next year.
  • Benjamin Moser is a writer and translator living in Amsterdam. His most recent book is Sontag: Her Life and Work.
  • Jonathan Zimmerman is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn was published this year.
  • Leonard Cohen the poet and songwriter died in 2016.
  • Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and the author most recently of Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in the Age of Deception.
  • Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of The Stillborn God and The Once and Future Liberal.
  • Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University and the author of many books on poetry.
  • Holly Brewer teaches history at the University of Maryland and is the author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority.
  • Shaul Tchernikhovsky was a renowned Hebrew poet and translator. He died in Jerusalem in 1943. Robert Alter is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkley.
  • David Thomson is the author of many books on film, most recently A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.
  • Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.
  • Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.