In this issue of Liberties: Katherine C. Epstein — Scholarship and the Future of Society; Mario Vargas Llosa — A Forgotten Giant; Cass R. Sunstein — A Constitutional Manifesto; Mark Edmundson — The Trouble with Good People; James Wolcott — Billionaires on Parada; Elliot Ackerman — The American Strategic Imagination; Moshe Halbertal — Two Concepts of God in Judaism and Beyond; Noga Arikha — Why Brain Science does not Have the Last Word; Carlos Fraenkel — Astronomy and Magic; Daphne Merkin — What You Never Knew About Sigmund Freud’s Wife; James R. Russell — The Poet Misak Medzarents, and Two Poems;  Robert Alter — What Flaubert Taught Agnon; Rachel Connolly — The Unfunny Fate of Humor in Our Time; Helen Vendler — The Excitement of Discovering a New Poet; Celeste Marcus — Israel and The Struggle for Liberal Nationalism; Leon Wieseltier — How To Think Unhysterically About Change; and, poetry by Leslie Williams and Misak Medzarents.

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