Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Ryan Ruby is the author most recently of Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry.

David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. He is the author most recently of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in The Age of Revolution.

Emily Ogden is the author of On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism and Darkness Becomes Bright. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Critical Inquiry, The New York Times, American Literature, the LA Review of Books Quarterly Journal, The Point, and Berfrois, among other publications. The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Mellon Fellowship in the Columbia Society of Fellows, she is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Kian Tajbakhsh is an Iranian-American scholar, social scientist, and urban planner.

Wendy Gan is a fellow at Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institue and a professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong.

John Summers is a writer, historian, and the editor of Lingua Franca Media. Inc.

A.E. STALLINGS is the Oxford Professor of Poetry and multi-award-winning poet whose accolades include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her books include Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022).