Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

4 days 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 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | libertiesjournal.com | Andrew Marzoni

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.

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Celeste Marcus

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 of family members, and endless slips of paper demanding BRING THEM HOME NOW. Almost all of the posters were in English. Who are they talking to? I wondered.

1 month ago | libertiesjournal.com | Jessica Pishko

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 law enforcement officers or had substantial criminal histories.