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by Sean Wilentz (Author), Andrew Delbanco (Author), Lewis Hyde (Author)
Liberties features the world's sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection of writing about today worth rereading tomorrow.
The Summer 2026 issue will be a special edition, with a nod to America's Semiquincentennial. Liberties writers will examine 250 years of culture and politics in the United States and the issue will feature a diverse selection of American poetry.
In this issue of Liberties, Sean Wilentz exposes the Trumpian distortions of the American past; Andrew Delbanco on the tribulations of the American university; Lewis Hyde explains what American history teaches about ICE; Armando Chaguaceda presents the creed of a Cuban dissident; Meg Vlaun on retreating to the mountains; Roxana Saberi interviews riot police on the streets of Iran; Ihab Hassan a Palestinian's indictment of Hamas; Carissa Véliz a non-Luddite tribute to an analog existence; Michael C. Kimmage Melville's oceanic parable of democratic citizenship; Arash Azizi the patriotism of a progressive; Mark Lilla on the unbeautiful nature of politics; Robert Alter on how the Bible does a lot with a little; Len Gutkin on the persistence of the political in the reading of literature; Kai Sina the strenuous liberalism and Zionism of Thomas Mann; Nadia Jamil Mahmoud Darwish's poetry of empathy; Tamar Glezerman on mourning far away from home; Ani Chkhikvadze discovers the occult in the nation's capital; Celeste Marcus on rape in polite society; and Leon Wieseltier the meanings of patriotism in our semiquincentennial.
The issue also include a selection of American poetry spanning Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau, Carrie Williams Clifford, Frances Harper, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Phoebe Cary, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ambrose Bierce, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane.
Liberties is the premier journal of culture and politics that also publishes new works online weekly and hosts lively events dedicated to thinking carefully about art and ideas. United only by a commitment to advancing the humanities and the democratic process, Liberties provides serious ideas and beautiful writing for readers who demand both.
Author Biography
SEAN WILENTZ is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and the author most recently of No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding.
ANDREW DELBANCO is Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia and President of the Teagle Foundation.
LEWIS HYDE's latest book is A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.
ROXANA SABERI is a correspondent for CBS News. In 2009 she was held prisoner in Iran's Evan Prison for 101 days under accusation of espionage.
ARMANDO CHAGUACEDA is a political Scientist and historian. He is currently Karl Loewenstein Fellow and Visiting Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
MEG VLAUN is a writer who lives in a log cabin in rural North Carolina.
IHAB HASSAN is a Palestinian writer, researcher, and activist.
CARISSA VÉLIZ is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI.
MICHAEL C. KIMMAGE is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America and the author most recently of Collisions: The War in Ukraine and the Origins of the New Global Instability.
ARASH AZIZI is a writer and a lecturer at Yale University. He is the author of What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom and Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US and Iran's Global Ambitions.
MARK LILLA is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know.
ROBERT ALTER is the author of many literary studies and professor emeritus of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at University of California at Berkeley.
LEN GUTKIN is Editor at the Chronicle Review.
KAI SINA holds the Lichtenberg Professorship for Modern German Literary Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Münster and leads the Thomas Mann Research Center.
TAMAR GLEZERMAN is an Israeli writer, director, and editor living and working in Brooklyn.
NADIA JAMIL is a senior researcher in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.
ANI CHKHIKVADZE is a journalist focused on international politics, security, and American foreign policy.
CELESTE MARCUS is the executive editor of Liberties.
LEON WIESELTIER is the editor of Liberties.
