Contributors

  • Laura Kipnis is the author, most recently, of Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis.
  • Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago.
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy is the author most recently of The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope. This essay was translated by Steven Kennedy.
  • Bruce D. Jones is the author of To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers. He is the director of the Project on International Order and Strategy and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. 
  • Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist. His most recent collection of poems in English is Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City. 
  • David Greenberg teaches history at Rutgers University and is completing a biography of John Lewis.
  • Ingrid Rowland is the author, among many books, of From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town. She teaches at Notre Dame.
  • David A. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton University and the author most recently of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution.
  • Nathaniel Mackey’s most recent volume of poems is Breath and Precarity.
  • Robert Cooper is a British and European diplomat, and the author of The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times.
  • Steven M. Nadler is a professor of philosophy and a member of the Center for Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the author of many books on Spinoza and the seventeenth century. 
  • Morten Høi Jensen is the author of A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jans Peter Jacobsen.
  • Clara Collier is a writer in California.
  • Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University.
  • Haris Vlavianos is a Greek poet, translator and historian. The poem “Poetic License” was originally written in English.
  • Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.
  • Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.