Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Robert Rubsam

I visited Manhattan during Labor Day Weekend, 2001, and then returned that November to find the area barricaded by plywood walls, and the walls fliered with the pictures of missing people. Two years later a boiling dread roiled the March of 2003, as America’s futile and illegal invasion of Iraq had become inescapable. Years later I stood on the corner of my small town holding a sign protesting that pointless failed war, and I was called a communist, a terrorist, and a traitor.

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Henry Oliver

Virginia Woolf might be at once the English novelist who is the most accomplished and the most shrugged off. The characters of Mrs Dalloway were never going to appear on cigarette cards, as Dickens’ characters did. Orlando even irritated Elizabeth Bowen (because it had too many in-jokes for Vita Sackville-West). Admirers must admit that, as Penelope Fitzgerald said, Woolf’s techniques were taken as far as they could go.

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Rhoda Feng

Jamieson Webster treats psychoanalysis not as a static body of knowledge but as something to be tested, stretched, and reimagined. A practicing analyst, she is also a professor, writer, and public intellectual whose work pushes the field beyond the consulting room. She has collaborated with artists, written for general audiences, and even performed in plays.

2 months ago | libertiesjournal.com | Arash Azizi |Celeste Marcus |Enrique Krauze |Ibrahim al-Assil

Last month Liberties assembled a number of specialists on regions or communities plagued by despotic leaders for a conversation on Zoom.

2 months ago | libertiesjournal.com | Celeste Marcus |Jake Harrison

The abstract principle that human beings are born with dignity is too difficult for a person to formulate on her own. It had to be formulated by many minds in concert over generations and then enshrined in philosophical texts which shape worldviews and governments. Though the idea of human dignity is at least as old as the Bible, it was not set down in a political philosophy until millennia later.