Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

07/12/2025

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07/11/2025

Read on Peter Weiss’s trilogy of novels, “The Aesthetics of Resistance,” on our site now.

07/03/2025

“…Even if they’re criticized one day, or despised as copies, it will remain no less true that it’s justifiable to try to make Millet’s work more accessible to the ordinary general public.”

Vincent Van Gogh in an 1890 letter to his brother, Theo.

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06/24/2025

“According to the latest poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, nearly half of Gaza’s population is now willing to apply to Israel for help in emigrating to other countries through Israeli-controlled ports and airports.

For months, Gaza has been transformed into a place unfit for human life — not by accident, but through deliberate Israeli policy. The Israeli military and government have systematically made the Strip a hellscape to push people toward one option: leaving. No electricity. No water. No medicine. Not even a proper burial for the dead. And in the heart of this devastation, so-called ‘voluntary migration’ plans promoted by the Israeli government are beginning to surface — built not on hope, but on despair. The question we must ask is a moral one: does the desire to survive justify uprooting an entire people from their homeland? Can the will to live be weaponized to legitimize ethnic cleansing?”

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06/24/2025

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06/11/2025

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06/06/2025

“Yet, there are also differences between the way my American friends and my Czech countrymen experience the return of Donald Trump. The Americans feel anger, uncertainty, fear. But the Europeans feel something else, something like outright vertigo. Not because anyone harbored illusions about Trump’s affinity for the old continent, but because his presidency seems to fatally question what we believed to be a foundation of our existence — that history had, in effect, ended. At least on our continent. And if there was someone who bought into this promise of permanence and stability most strongly, it was the Czechs of my generation.” Read more from on our site now.

06/06/2025

“Yet, there are also differences between the way my American friends and my Czech countrymen experience the return of Donald Trump. The Americans feel anger, uncertainty, fear. But the Europeans feel something else, something like outright vertigo. Not because anyone harbored illusions about Trump’s affinity for the old continent, but because his presidency seems to fatally question what we believed to be a foundation of our existence — that history had, in effect, ended. At least on our continent. And if there was someone who bought into this promise of permanence and stability most strongly, it was the Czechs of my generation.” Read more from on our site.

06/04/2025

In our spring issue, Kenda Mutongi warns against the use and abuse of magical thinking. Read the rest on our site!

“Outside Nairobi, Kenya,” Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

05/30/2025

“If he wasn’t an artist of genius, W. Dieter Zander, like Albert Barnes or Isabella Stewart Gardner, was a collector of genius — which is by no means a lesser achievement. As the eclectic elegance of Barnes’s and Gardner’s museums stand in contrast to the blandness of curation by committee, Zander’s eye for menus is an important contribution in itself. He was not simply someone with a strange, compulsive hoarding-adjacent hobby.”

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05/27/2025