Liberties Journal
Cordelia Gilligan, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Celeste Marcus, David Polansky, Laura Cecile Moore, Morten Høi Jensen, Roxana Saberi, Weam AbuDaqqaLiberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | 8 months ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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The Missing Israeli Conversation, or The Task of the Zionist Left
This week’s Sidebar is an essay in translation written by Yuval Yavneh and translated by Celeste Marcus. Yavneh argues that there are only two perspectives on the war in Gaza within Israel, but that neither is correct. Instead, he asserts t...
Montaigne Reading Group - On the education of children
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Éric Rohmer's Cinematic Symposia
David Polansky watched all of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer’s films and in the process identified the qualities that have made his films so influential for filmmakers such as Whit Stillman and Richard Linklater, but also put his film...
Montaigne - essays 2, 3, and 4 in the Penguin Classics complete essays collection
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Montaigne Reading Group - On How Philosophy is Learning to Die
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
Flâneuse, scholar, and writer. Jennie in jammies, Dr. LG on the dotted line. Author of Blood at the Root (2011), Captive City (2025), Cosmic American Road Trip (2027), and Vigilance Lessons (soon).
Executive editor Liberties Journal
I'm a political theorist and writer with interests in nationalism, state-formation, political conflict, and religion, but also music, literature, film, etc.
Lifelong obsessive quester. I cycle through fixations; currently: artistic sensibility, Jean Rhys, unconscious thought, Icelandic place names. Published in Liberties, Electric Literature, & The Madrid Review. Forthcoming in The Philosopher.
Author of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) and A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press, 2017) European liaison, @libertiesjournal
Journalist | Author | Explorer | Iran-Japan-Fargo roots | Piano tinkerer
Writer, Investigative Journalist, and Researcher at the University of Exeter. Voice for the voiceless-dedicated to documenting human rights, capturing untold suffering, and bringing deep, impactful narratives from Gaza to the world.
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