Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Sean Wilentz is the author of The Rise of American Democracy, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wilentz teaches American history at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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

Sohrab Ahmari is the US Editor of UnHerd. Prior to that, he co-founded Compact magazine and spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as the op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Statesman, and The Spectator, among many others. Ahmari’s previous books include Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What To Do About It and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.

Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, including Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance.

William Deresiewicz’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, the American Scholar, and many other publications. He is the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and is the New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education.

Ramachandra Guha's books include a pioneering
environmental history, The Unquiet Woods; a landmark
history of the Republic, India after Gandhi; and an
authoritative two-volume biography of Mahatma
Gandhi, each of which was chosen by the New York
Times as a Notable Book of the Year. He is also the
author of two memoirs, The Commonwealth of Cricket
and The Cooking of Books.
Guha is currently Distinguished University Professor at
Krea University. He has previously taught at Oslo,
Stanford and the London School of Economics. Guha's
many awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the
American Society for Environmental History, the
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and
the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian culture.
He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the
humanities from Yale University.

Steven B. Smith is Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and codirector of Yale's Center for the Study of Representative Institutions. His books include Political Philosophy, Modernity and Its Discontents, and Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes. He splits his time between New Haven, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York.