Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays.
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"Bristle" and "Before the Horse"
In Sidebar this week, we have two poems from Rachel Hadas. Rachel is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is Piece by Piece: Selected Prose, and her most recent poetry collection is Ghost Gue...
David Foster Wallace and Democracy
This year has included many prominent reevaluations of David Foster Wallace’s reputation and legacy, tied to the 30th anniversary and reissue of Infinite Jest. Back in 2024, David Masciotra wrote a Sidebar about the DFW beatification-turned...
ChatGPT, Martin Buber’s I-It and Ours
In honor of the conclusion of our inaugural Liberties seminar, which was on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, this week’s Sidebar was written by Allan Nadler, the Wallerstein Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion and former Director...
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...
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere
Writer and critic at various places.
Toronto based writer
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For the past two decades, A.J. Goldmann has covered European culture for American newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Wired and The Christian Science Monitor.
I am the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy Melville House Books) and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020).
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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