Vladimir Kara-Murza (“Putin’s Poisons” V. 1, Issue 3) Courageously Defends Freedom of Expression
Liberties writer and Washington Post Global Opinions Contributor, Vladimir Kara-Murza’s inspiring closing statement in his Moscow trial for “treason.”
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Jack Goldsmith (V1Iss2) in NYT: Prosecute Trump? Put Yourself in Merrick Garland’s Shoes.
NYT Link The evidence gathered by the Jan. 6 committee and in some of the federal cases against those involved in the Capitol attack pose for Attorney General Merrick Garland one of the most consequential questions that any attorney general has ever faced: Should the United States indict former President Donald Trump?
Samuel Moyn (V2Iss2) in WaPo: Counting on the Supreme Court to uphold key rights was always a mistake
WaPo Link Not since Roe v. Wade came down in 1973 have the threats to basic women’s rights in this country been more serious. The situation reflects a flaw in our political system: The Supreme Court has been allowed to usurp the place of national majorities in envisioning and enacting the highest values of American citizenship…
WaPo Opinion: Vladimir Kara-Murza (V1Iss3) from jail: Russia will be free. I’ve never been so sure.
WaPo Opinion: “We never managed to break out of it in the short window of opportunity in the ’90s. But we’ll get out one day, for sure. There will be another window of opportunity — and this time we need to use it correctly. There will be a dawn. The night, as you know, is…
Sean Wilentz’s Liberties essay “The Tyranny of the Majority” (V2iss1) mentioned in The Hill
Princeton University’s Sean Wilentz, in an essay in Liberties Journal, writes of the “unsettling similarities” between the Trump-inspired Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol to overturn the presidential election and the events leading to the Southern secession causing the Civil War. He writes, “The secessionists committed treason by repudiating the democratic Union; but the Trump…
Elliot Ackerman (V1Iss4) on the RealClear Defense podcast discussing Afghanistan
Elliot Ackerman on the Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Elliot Ackerman (Vol1No4) describes what he and other veterans are doing to save allies still stuck in Afghanistan after US Withdrawal
For the past two weeks, I’ve worked alongside an ad hoc group of veterans, journalists and activists with connections to Afghanistan who are trying to coordinate the evacuation of not just our Afghan friends but also strangers, like Ahmad and N., whose lives are under imminent threat.
An interview with Liberties’ great friends fighting for liberty in Belarus
Interview with human rights activists Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin, founders of Belarus Free Theatre.
Politics and Prose with Maureen Dowd: A Discussion on Culture & Politics with Liberties Journal
Join New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, “Liberties” Editor Leon Wieseltier, and Managing Editor Celeste Marcus for this enlightening discussion.
Russian authorities just arrested an entire conference hall full of people. I was one of them. (Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vol1No3)
“As the forum was getting underway, several dozen police officers marched into the conference room. The commanding officer seized the floor… and announced that our meeting was ‘illegal’ and that all its participants were being taken into police custody. The initial burst of laughter from the audience quickly changed to chants of “shame” and “fascists”…
Mexico’s President May Be Just Months Away From Gaining Total Control (Enrique Krauze, Vol1No3)
“The year 2022 will mark 200 years of official relations between Mexico and the United States. But before we’re able to celebrate this milestone, we must first work to safeguard freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Mexico under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s illiberal rule.”
Beyond Black History Month (Thomas Chatterton Williams, Vol1No1)
“American society is more willing than ever before to speak out against racism and to embrace Black history, but we continue to make the fatal mistake of taking the concept of race itself for granted.”
I called up my would-be killer. He didn’t want to talk. (Vladimir Kara-Murza; Vol1No3)
“[F]or a few seconds, I listened to the voice of the man whose job, it appears, is to physically eliminate people like myself, opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” This month, after an investigation conducted by Bellingcat, the Insider, and Der Spiegel identified the operatives likely responsible for attempting to poison him, Vladimir Kara-Murza called…
Agent non provocateur How Žižek was tamed by Covid-19 (Becca Rothfeld; Vol1No3)
For the TLS, Becca Rothfeld reviews Slavoj Zizek’s monograph Pandemic!.
LibertiesTalk Ep3: Podcast of Liberties a Journal of Culture and Politics
Shawn McCreesh talks with Celeste Marcus about what it was like to grow up in a suburb of Philadelphia ravaged by the opioid crisis.
LibertiesTalk Ep2: Podcast of Liberties a Journal of Culture and Politics
Michael Ignatieff, rector of Central European University, chats with Celeste Marcus about what it was like to watch America desecrate its own sacred institutions from Europe, and what that desecration represents for the United States and the world.
‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent (Sally Satel; Vol1No1)
For the Wall Street Journal, Sally Satel reviews Carl Hart’s controversial new book about drug use
LibertiesTalk Ep 1: Podcast of Liberties A Journal of Culture and Politics
Episode one of LibertiesTalk in which Celeste Marcus and Leon Wieseltier discuss where we are.
Liberties Editor Leon Wieseltier Featured in Le Monde
What’s the current state of freedom of expression? What was the damage of recent of US politics? What’s next? Le Monde asks Leon Wieseltier for his view points.
Peggy Noonan and Leon Wieseltier with Femsplainers’ Danielle Crittenden
Danielle Crittenden, Peggy Noonan and Liberties’ Leon Wieseltier celebrate a passion for politics and for understanding.
Liberties Publisher Bill Reichblum on Monocle’s The Stack
A podcast interview with Bill Reichblum on the countercultural approach of Liberties Journal.
The Glenn Show Videocasts with Leon Wieseltier
Glenn Loury sits down with Liberties Editor Leon Wieseltier and lets the sparks of inspiration and insight fly.
Il Folgio with Liberties Editor Leon Wieseltier
Where’s the love in politics? Il Foglio interviews Leon Wieseltier.
The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Malick (David Thomson; Vol1No1)
Film critic David Thomson argues that A Hidden Life ranks among Terence Malick’s masterpieces.
What’s New in Publishing with Liberties Publisher Bill Reichblum
In our age of digital overloads and immediate media, Liberties turns to a tried and true technology.
Liberties Editor Leon Wieseltier on Meghan Daum’s The Unspeakable Podcast
Can Old-School Intellectualism Make a Comeback In A New Era?
Liberties Journal: Contributors and Themes Unveiled for Inaugural Issue
New Quarterly Journal on Culture and Politics Features Original Works from Leading Independent Thinkers and Writers
Liberties Journal: Contributors and Themes Unveiled for Inaugural Issue
New Quarterly Journal on Culture and Politics Features Original Works from Leading Independent Thinkers and Writers.
Philly’s Exponent with Liberties Managing Editor Celeste Marcus
Home town pride and finding the next gen of writers. The Jewish Exponent interviews Celeste Marcus.
Taking—and Making—Liberties
Three years after #MeToo allegations sank his Laurene Powell Jobs–funded magazine, Leon Wieseltier wants back in.
Liberties Journal Foundation Debuts to Advance Independent Thinking at the Intersection of Culture and Politics
New Non-Partisan, Not-For-Profit Features Highly Established with Emerging Writers in Quarterly Journal on Culture and Politics
Liberties Journal Foundation Debuts to Advance Independent Thinking at the Intersection of Culture and Politics
New Non-Partisan, Not-For-Profit Features Highly Established with Emerging Writers in Quarterly Journal on Culture and Politics
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Michael Ignatieff, Laura Kipnis, Mark Lilla, Helen Vendler, Sean Wilentz, Thomas Chatterton Williams join others in Harper’s Magazine.
Monuments to a Complicated Past
Sean Wilentz in the Wall Street Journal.
We Need to Stop Measuring Black Lives by Their Whiteness
Thomas Chatterton Williams in the New York Times.