Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties . Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties . Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author most recently of Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation . David Nirenberg has been appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Ricardo Nirenberg is a mathematician. They are the authors of Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present . Samuel Moyn is the Henry R.

Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale Law School. He is the author most recently of Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War . Maria Stepanova is a Russian poet and essayist and the author of In Memory of Memory . This essay has been translated by Alexandria Dugdale. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian intellectual and the author of Burden of Democracy . Nicholas Lemann is a professor journalism at Columbia University and the author most recently of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream . Colin Channer is a Jamaican poet and the author most recently of Providential . Michael Kimmage is the Ordinary Professor and the Chair of the History Department at Catholic University.

He is the author, among other books, of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy . William Deresiewicz is a writer and critic and the author most recently of The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech . Alastair Macaulay is a critic and historian of the performing arts who was the chief dance critic of the New York Times and the chief theater critic of The Financial Times. Andrew Motion is a former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He is the author of many collections of poems and a biography of Philip Larkin. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is an intellectual historian at Syracuse University and the author, among other books, of Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a new Society . Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the author of Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism . Helen Vendler is the A.

Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University. Aaron Fagan is a poet and the author of Garage and Echo Train .