Contributors

  • MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and the author, among many other books, of Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation.
  • DAVID NIRENBERG has been appointed Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
  • RICARDO NIRENBERG is a mathematician. They are the authors of Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present.
  • SAMUEL MOYN is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale Law School. He is the author most recently of Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.
  • MARIA STEPANOVA is a Russian poet and essayist and the author of In Memory of Memory. This essay has been translated by Alexandra Dugdale.
  • PRATAP BHANU MEHTA is an Indian intellectual and the author of Burden of Democracy.
  • NICHOLAS LEMANN is a professor journalism at Columbia University and the author most recently of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream.
  • COLIN CHANNER is a Jamaican poet and the author of Providential.
  • MICHAEL KIMMAGE is the Ordinary Professor and the Chair of the History Department at Catholic University. He is the author, among other books, of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy.
  • WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ is a writer and critic and the author most recently of The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.
  • ALASTAIR MACAULAY is a critic and historian of the performing arts who was the chief dance critic of The New York Times and the chief theater critic of the Financial Times.
  • ANDREW MOTION is a former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He is the author of many collections of poems and a biography of Philip Larkin.
  • ELISABETH LASCH-QUINN is an intellectual historian at Syracuse University and the author of Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a new Society and, most recently, Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and The Return of the Ancient Arts of Living.
  • PHILIP KITCHER is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of  Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism.
  • HELEN VENDLER is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University.
  • AARON FAGAN is a poet and the author of Garage, Echo Train and A Better Place is Hard to Find.
  • CELESTE MARCUS is the managing editor of Liberties.
  • LEON WIESELTIER is the editor of Liberties.