<p><b><i>Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics,</i></b> is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.</p><p>In this issue of <b><i>Liberties</i></b>: <b>Cynthia Ozick</b> on the power of <b>Philip Roth</b>; <b>Linda Kinstler</b> on the Need for Oblivion; <b>Michael Ignatieff’s</b> History of My Privileges; <b>Timothy Noah</b> offers a Prayer for the Administrative State; <b>Sohrab Ahmari</b> on the Poverty of Catholic Intellectual Life; <b>Yaroslav Hrytsak</b> on Ukraine and Liberal Nationalism; <b>David Rieff</b> on Populism, Peronism, and Madness in Argentina; <b>Len Gutkin</b> investigates if studying Humanities is Too Traumatic?; <b>Elliot Ackerman</b> in Mercenaries, provides a guide through history and current practice and risks of governments using private armies; the great pianist <b>Alfred Brendel </b>on his love