“Palestinian eyes gaze towards Zion with no less love or loyalty than our own. In the name of prudence as well as decency, the holy land must carry two flags in two countries for two peoples. This is our, and their, only hope.” ⁦Celeste Marcus⁩
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Flaneur 1: My Enlightened Tehran
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی
'The very act of showing up to those plays and reading those books was cultural resistance.'
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The History of My Privileges - Liberties Journal. Just published! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-h…

“the thugs who govern both peoples”
Celeste Marcus

Deformed Political/Professional Classes

“All professionals are deformed,” begins a quip by acclaimed literary critic Merve Emre. She’s correct, but that insight applies in a larger sense…
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Reason, Treason, and Palestine
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Το πολιτισμικό σοκ ενός (φιλοδυτικού) Ιρανού στη Δύση στο τέλος της δεκαετίας του 2000: Οι συμφοιτητές του ενδιαφέρονται μόνο για την ποπ κουλτούρα και αδιαφορούν για τον Οζού, τον Μπρεχτ, την Άρεντ.
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Reason, Treason, and Palestine
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'And just as government is not a tragedy, the common good is not a “collectivist” imposition on the individual.' #commongood libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-p…

Wonderful ode to the Tehran of dissidents and artists from Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

“He understood that under modern industrial conditions, social justice and class reconciliation could not be accomplished by means of mere exhortations to virtue targeted at the elites, but by means of power exerted from below and bolstered by state action…by means of democracy”

Ah, 'The Ironist's Cage' (1991)

The History of My Privileges - Liberties libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-h…

Thrilled to work through some 'Curricular Trauma' libertiesjournal.com/articles/curri… in such a phenomenal issue of Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

“A nation that requires private armies to sustain popular support for wars is likely fighting those wars for the wrong reasons.”
Elliot Ackerman Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

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For V4Iss3 of Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics I wrote about a program I'm very privileged to be work on, with a man who is genuinely heroic.
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A brilliant and rousing manifesto for our times by ⁦Celeste Marcus⁩

“Cruelty is easier than it used to be. Courage is, too.”
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Out in Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics - my essay on impurity in art and by extension impurity in culture (via Joyce, Melville and Vermeer). But the frame for this essay is Alexander Pushkin and his play 'Mozart and Salieri,' a poet of genius at the center of many storms.
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Some news!

For the first time, enjoy our web-only, unpaywalled pieces along with V4Iss3
Featuring Gideon Leek, Sheila O'Malley, Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی and Celeste Marcus libertiesjournal.com/read/