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In this edition of Liberties ...
In this edition of Liberties ...
In this edition of Liberties ...
March 31, 2025
Among the many grievances aired by Norman Podhoretz in his insufferable 1967 memoir Making It is an already septic grudge concerning The New Yorker’s publication of James Baldwin’s most famous essay in 1962. Titled, following the magazine’s convention, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” this twenty-thousand word assemblage of memoir, reportage, and philosophical interrogation...
Read MoreMarch 26, 2025
The slick marble walkway between the tarmac and passport control at Ben Gurion airport was lined with poster after poster of missing, returned, or dead hostages. Still wobbly from hours on and off planes and in various layover airports, I walked past their smiling faces beside numbers marking the days since October 7, 2023, photographs...
Read MoreMarch 24, 2025
Fashion, my mother always told me, is a reflection of the sensibilities of the time. The designer Christian Dior, whose hourglass silhouettes revolutionized post-war fashion in the 1940s, called it “ephemeral architecture.” And yet, too often fashion is written off as a frivolity, an apolitical or politically clueless display of ostentation. It’s no surprise, then,...
Read MoreMarch 17, 2025
Brideshead Revisited is one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. It is beloved, but it also provokes antipathy — as it always has. When Evelyn Waugh wrote the novel in 1945 many of his fellow writers reviled it. They, like so many secular contemporary readers, found its Catholicism bizarre, its breathless depiction...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025
Once upon a time, democracy excited the American imagination. When Thomas Mann toured the United States in the spring of 1938 with a lecture on “The Coming Victory of Democracy,” his audiences averaged somewhere between two thousand and seven thousand people at a time. In New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Kansas City, Chicago,...
Read MoreMarch 5, 2025
The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second administration have been characterized, among other things, by an obscene display of policing power, one that has largely alarmed liberals because it appears completely lawless. One of Trump’s initial acts was pardoning and commuting people convicted of crimes related to January 6, including some who had injured...
Read MoreMarch 2, 2025
Is Being fundamentally a state, or an act? Is humanhood something we are, or that we do? For Heidegger, we only exist as relational creatures, embedded in a web of connections, and it is through our attempt to comprehend the nature of those relations that we arrive at a full understanding of ourselves as Beings....
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2025
“The day after,” has been a shorthand since the start of the war for what will happen in Gaza once the war is over. It would more fittingly be called “the days after,” since whoever governs Gaza will also have to grapple with the problem of who will rebuild it and how, and what can...
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2025
Piotr Florczyk in conversation with Ange Mlinko, occasioned by the release of Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets, Mlinko’s collection of literary essays, out now from Oxford University Press. It seems the number of books in print increases every year — a condition which never ceases to surprise me; not long ago the demise of...
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2025
Over the past month and change, every day has brought some new and shocking change to the country where I was born. The mass pardon of domestic terrorists. Corruption charges dropped against the mayor of New York City, in exchange for cooperation with ICE. The explicit targeting of racial and sexual minorities, the resumption of...
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