Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Summer 2026, (Paperback)

<p><b><i>Liberties</i> 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.</b></p><p>The Summer 2026 issue will be a special edition, with a nod to America's Semiquincentennial. <i>Liberties</i> writers will examine 250 years of culture and politics in the United States and the issue will feature a diverse selection of American poetry.</p><p></p><p>In this issue of <i>Liberties</i>, <b>Sean Wilentz</b> exposes the Trumpian distortions of the American past; <b>Andrew Delbanco</b> on the tribulations of the American university; <b>Lewis Hyde</b> explains what American history teaches about ICE; <b>Armando Chaguaceda</b> presents the creed of a Cuban dissident; <b>Meg Vlaun</b> on retreating to the mountains; <b>Roxana Saberi</b> interviews riot police on the streets of Iran; <b>Ihab Hassan</b> a Palestinian's indictment of Hamas; <b>Carissa Véliz</b> a non-Luddite tribute to an analog existence; <b>Michael C. Kimmage</b> Melville's oceanic parable of democratic citizenship; <b>Arash Azizi</b> the patriotism of a progressive; <b>Mark Lilla</b> on the unbeautiful nature of politics; <b>Robert Alter</b> on how the Bible does a lot with a little; <b>Len Gutkin</b> on the persistence of the political in the reading of literature; <b>Kai Sina</b> the strenuous liberalism and Zionism of Thomas Mann; <b>Nadia Jamil</b> Mahmoud Darwish's poetry of empathy; <b>Tamar Glezerman</b> on mourning far away from home; <b>Ani Chkhikvadze</b> discovers the occult in the nation's capital; <b>Celeste Marcus</b> on rape in polite society; and <b>Leon Wieseltier</b> the meanings of patriotism in our semiquincentennial.</p><p>The issue also include a selection of American poetry spanning <b>Benjamin Franklin</b>, <b>Philip Freneau</b>, <b>Carrie Williams Clifford</b>, <b>Frances Harper</b>, <b>John Greenleaf Whittier</b>, <b>Herman Melville</b>, <b>Phoebe Cary</b>, <b>Ralph Waldo Emerson</b>, <b>Ambrose Bierce</b>, <b>Emma Lazarus</b>, <b>Walt Whitman</b>, and <b>Stephen Crane</b>.</p><p><i>Liberties</i> 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, <i>Liberties</i> provides serious ideas and beautiful writing for readers who demand both.</p>

• Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Summer 2026, (Paperback)
• Author: Sean Wilentz
• ISBN: 9798992201031
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-08-04
• Page Count: 272