"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance"

"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance"

** "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is"**

** "Liberties is THE place to be."***Liberties *, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time.

*Liberties *features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today's culture and politics.

In this issue of* Liberties *: Laura Kipnis on Genders Without Fear; Dorian Abbot's call to arms - Science to Politics: Drop Dead; Bernard Henri-Lévy on What is Reading?; Bruce D. Jones on today's reality of Taiwan, China, America; David Greenberg examines The War on Objectivity; Helen Vendler on Art vs. Stereotypes through the work of Marianne Moore; Ingrid Rowland captures Thucydides on our Conflicts; David A. Bell exposes the Greatest Enemy of Democracy in France; Robert Cooper reports on Myanmar, Atrocity in the Garden of Eden; Steven M. Nadler on Bans and Excommunications, Then and Now; Morten H i Jensen on the State of Literary Biography; Clara Collier on Women with Whips -- Joan Crawford,Marlene Dietrich,Barbara Stanwyck ; Celeste Marcus on Unknown Heroes of Modern Art; Leon Wieseltier reveals Christianism in Modern Politics; and, new poetry from Durs Grünbein, Nathaniel Mackey, and Haris Vlavianos.