Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays.
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Politics vs the World's Most Political Film Festival
Reflecting on this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, A. J. Goldmann untangles the threads of art and politics that have caused more problems for the Berlinale in the last few years than either of the other “Big Three” film festival...
Cloud Hoarders
Julia Kieserman, a doctoral student at New York University who writes about security and privacy issues, wrote this essay for the Winter 2026 issue of Liberties. In it, she reckons with the physical reality of our digital junk — accidental...
Ozu and the Fear of Death
In Sidebar, Greg Gerke examines Yasujirō Ozu’s filmmaking to explain how his oeuvre penetrates the audience’s perception long after watching his movies. For Gerke, one manifestation of that influence is the ability to rehearse, through seei...
Save the Date: Israel, Then and Now
EDIT: This event is rescheduled to Thursday, June 25. The post has been edited to reflect the new date.
On Thursday, June 25 at 1PM ET, Liberties editor Leon Wieseltier and executive editor Celeste Marcus will be going live on Substack to...
In the Ice Cream Archive: John Margolies’ Roadside Americana
Gideon Leek’s essay on John Margolies’ photography, originally published in Liberties Sidebar on April 1, 2024, is a trip through now-demolished roadside kitsch. All photos are from the Library of Congress.
Gideon Leek has contributed essa...
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere
Writer and critic at various places.
Toronto based writer
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Julia is a writer and PhD student in usable security. She likes hanging around books and bulldogs.
Brooklyn-based writer. Fiction in Wigleaf, Hobart, Eclectica. Essays and Reviews in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Liberties, Los Angeles Review of Books.
Writer in Paris
Writer and former publishing professional, offering hard truths and hot takes about the writing business.
Writing from the intersection of academia and ground-level journalism. Researcher at the University of Exeter and contributor to BBC OS & Liberties Journal. Dedicated to telling stories that matter through We Are Not Numbers
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