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V4Iss3 now live
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Read "Digitization, Surveillance, Colonialism" in which
@CarissaVeliz
warns ominously that the threat of total social surveillance begins the moment anything is digitized
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Read
@earlymodjustice
's essay "Race and Enlightenment: The Story of a Slander" now on Now Showing
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V2Iss3 is now live on our website
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Liberties visits Henry Adams’ grave
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In his latest for the
@WashingtonPost
,
@vkaramurza
describes his farcical trial in Moscow: "Kafka would have been jealous of today’s Russia."
Kara-Murza's "Putin's Poisons," an original piece, will appear in the third issue of Liberties, out this month.
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Read "The Cult of Carl Schmitt" by Richard Wolin now on Now Showing
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Liberties Issue Four, featuring work by writers and poets such as
@elliotackerman
@thomaschattwill
@slsatel
@ae_stallings
@mkimmage
@RBKitaj
and
@Celestemarcus3
, is now live on our website
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V2Iss4 now live on our website
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Read new poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh
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In which
@CMccafe
and
@Celestemarcus3
try to determine whether books are worthwhile with the help of many invested parties including
@CarlosNYT
,
@OsitaNwanevu
, and Becca Rothfeld
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Cheers to the New Year and the end of this one! We're throwing it back to Volume 1 Issue 1 of Liberties: if you missed this moving essay by
@ShawnMcCreesh
about the opioid epidemic the first time around, check it out now on Now Showing
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NEXT WEEKEND, JOIN
@washingreview
&
@readliberties
FOR THE "Is forgiveness possible?" SALON.
@CMccafe
and I sent out an email detailing the rules of engagement. If you're not on the list but would like to come (DM your email address and) read them here:
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.
@JaredMPollen
joins Leon Wieseltier to discuss Václav Havel and to consider whether or not an intellectual can responsibly assume political leadership.
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"No One's Gonna Love You More Than I Do" by Karen Solie
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For the first time, enjoy our web-only, unpaywalled pieces along with V4Iss3
Featuring
@gideon_leek
,
@sheilakathleen
,
@arash_tehran
and
@Celestemarcus3
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Tonight in Washington, the District of Columbia:
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Louise Glück, "A Memory" V1Iss1
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Liberties Volume 3 Issue 1 is now live on our website
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A particularly good time to revisit
@mkimmage
's perennially relevant essay "The Rise of Decline" V2Iss2 now on Now Showing
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"This massive broadening of the concept of trauma has had a host of undesirable effects. Perversely, encouraging people to see themselves as victims of trauma pushes them to embrace that identity."
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Becca Rothfeld and
@Celestemarcus3
pepper
@AgnesCallard
with questions about motherhood, among them: how it changes one, whether it's possible to prepare for it, and if one's own identity is enriched or extinguished through it.
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"There's a real battle of ideas happening..."
Listen to the latest episode of LibertiesTalk with
@thomaschattwill
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In Issue 2, some of our most daring, dazzling thinkers engage in depth with the sticky, red-hot issues shaping our sociopolitical landscape. Out now.
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Liberties V2Iss2 is now live on our website.
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Volume 4 Issue 2 is now live on our website
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Liberties V3Iss2 is live on our website
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Read Leon Wieseltier's essay, "The Wise, Too, Shed Tears," from V1Iss4 now on Now Showing
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Becca Rothfeld restored to DC
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@jehsmith
joins Leon Wieseltier and
@Celestemarcus3
to discuss the gamification of reality, and the pernicious compulsion to control and describe more and more of human existence using algorithms and technology.
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"The Death Trap of Difference, or What the Uyghurs Understand" (V2Iss1) by
@MamtiminAla
now on Now Showing
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In "The World as a Game"
@jehsmith
addresses the simulation argument and the gamification of human life. Read the essay now on Now Showing
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Apology flowers can be mailed to 1101 30th st nw suite 310 🪷🌸
Incidentally, I meant what I said here. There's a lot of interesting stuff in the new issue of
@readliberties
, worth checking it out!
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If you haven't seen Liberties editor Leon Wieseltier on The Glenn Show with
@glennloury
be sure to check it out!
#LibertiesJournal
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Read Mario Vargas Llosa's short story "The Winds" now on Now Showing
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LibertiesTalk Ep 19 -
@AgnesCallard
and Becca Rothfeld join
@Celestemarcus3
to discuss the movie The Night Porter.
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Listen to our podcast from April with Leon Wieseltier,
@elliotackerman
, and
@Celestemarcus3
about the proposed withdrawal from Afghanistan. Everything that is happening now was foretold.
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Join
@jkirchick
and Leon Wieseltier on Thursday June 1 at 6 PM for an
@interintellect_
salon about James' recent Liberties essay "From Queer to Gay to Queer." Sign up here:
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Read the late great Richard Taruskin on the nature of bad taste, now on Now Showing
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To learn more about the horrors of these boarding schools read “Nine Little Girls” by
@Celestemarcus3
from V1Iss4
After years of resisting such calls, Pope Francis on Friday apologized for the “deplorable conduct” of some Catholics in Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous children.
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Flaneur 1: My Enlightened Tehran
@arash_tehran
"The very act of showing up to those plays and reading those books was cultural resistance."
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Join us one week from today at the National Book Festival!
If you’re not in DC, watch the livestream of the event here:
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@mkimmage
"Scrutinizing the terrible uses to which great art can be put is a necessary exercise for lovers of beauty. 'There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism,' Walter Benjamin famously declared."
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"The Once and the Now" by Mark Lilla
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V3Iss4 is now live on our website
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Listen to "WRB x Liberties Salon 1" by LibertiesTalk. …
@CMccafe
, of the
@washingreview
, and
@Celestemarcus3
, host a salon in which they and a group of lively invested parties discuss whether or not books are worthwhile.
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"Despair of Wings" by Leon Wieseltier now on Now Showing
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Watch our panel from the National Book Festival here -
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Anna Ballan on Gustav Mahler
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RSVP to
@CMccafe
or
@Celestemarcus3
for the next
@washingreview
x Liberties salon
"Should you like your friends?”
6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Liberties offices
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"one of the advantages of the melancholic life is our total immunity to happiness experts to sell us a share of their stuff. We know that happiness is not the sort of thing that can be bought or sold, we know, that we, the unhappy, are its true experts."
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LibertiesTalk ep 20 - Martha Nussbaum joins Leon Wieseltier to discuss the relationship between the body and the soul.
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Is there loyalty without nationalism? Join us for the next
@washingreview
x Liberties salon tonight at 6:30 PM at the Liberties office to argue about the answer to that question. DM
@CMccafe
or
@Celestemarcus3
for details and to be added to the salon newsletter.
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LibertiesTalk Episode 17 Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice
joins
@Celestemarcus3
to discuss the intellectual history of a pernicious racist idea that Ibram X. Kendi wrongly attributed to John Locke.
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Listen to LibertiesTalk ep 18:
Leon Wieseltier and
@Celestemarcus3
discuss the horror in Ukraine. “If you want to deter and resist such obscenities, then you need to have a world view that will prepare you for such obscenities to occur.”
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"The intellectuals, the women, and the young who voted for Khatami [in 1997] hoped for a swift transformation. There was a brief period when it looked like they would get it. Newspapers were freer than they had ever been..."
@arash_tehran
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Vol2Iss1 Available in October
Subscribe at
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Is loyalty possible without nationalism? Listen to the spiciest
@washingreview
x Liberties salon to… well, not find out exactly but exchange views on the question
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Speechless from this beautiful gift
#LibertiesJournal
managing editor Celeste Marcus gave to first edition contributor
@thomaschattwill
!
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“Another Life” by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh
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"A Memory" Louise Glück from V1Iss1
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How to Talk to God, in which Helen Vendler demonstrates how to read the fourteenth of Donne's Holy Sonnets, is now on Now Showing
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Tuesday the House passed legislation to ban imports from Xinjiang due to knowledge of Uyghur forced labor. To better understand the history of the Uyghur Genocide read "The Death Trap of Difference" by
@MamtiminAla
in V2Iss1 of Liberties.
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Join us at
@FilmForumNYC
on Sunday June 23rd for a screening of Green Border and a Q&A with director Agnieszka Holland and
@daniel_m_lavery
!
Use code LIBERTIES for any screening of the film
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