KNYGA William Baude Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics

Liberties features the world’s sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection of writing about today worth rereading tomorrow.In the Winter 2026 issue: William Baude on who is the greatest constitutional authority in the land?; Abbas Milani, Ali Khamenei: a profile in dogma; Susie Linfield on the politics of the hardened heart: the Left since October 7; James Wolcott on the very golden age of Donald Trump; Hamze Awawde, a Palestinian's plea for Zionism; Sheila O’Malley on an argument for tactility; Julia Kieserman, what on earth really happens in the cloud?; Agnes Callard on the moral dimension of leisure; Melanie W. Sisson on the new grounds for nuclear fear; Evan Parks on poems, protests, and the crisis in higher education; Andrew Butterfield on good governance in Renaissance art; Mark Edmundson, Robert Frost may have the cure for what ails us; Steve Wasserman on the rise and fall and rise of American publishing; Yahia Lababidi, the poet as seer: Milosz and Merton; Constantin Waldschmidt, when Freud and Rilke went for a walk; Morten Høi Jensen on a Mann of the middle class; Celeste Marcus, “I Am Trying To Live A Life I Do Not Understand”; and Leon Wieseltier on the big beautiful mess of the past, the present, and the future. Also including poems by Rosanna Warren, Haris Vlavianos, and Amir Gilboa.Liberties is the premier journal of culture and politics that also publishes new works online weekly and hosts lively events dedicated to thinking carefully about art and ideas. United only by a commitment to advancing the humanities and the democratic process, Liberties provides serious ideas and beautiful writing for readers who demand both.