Could a book be more timely? The world is in a sorry state, and so is liberty. Times are
indeed dark, as the title of this monograph suggests. With its aggression on Ukraine, Russia …

Images pervade contemporary politics. Across the globe, people receive more and more of
their information and impressions about politics through media outlets saturated with …

This volume trace ways in which time is represented in reverse forms throughout modernist
culture, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the decade after World War II …

Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature
have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our …

It is one of the ironies of contemporary culture that the word liberal is used as a negative
term not only by the Republican Right but also by the academic Left. In the language of the …

This article aims to contribute to recent discussions about the status of the “aesthetic” in the
history of liberalism, by considering the ways in which ideas about music—specifically a …

The aesthetics and emotional and affective manifestations that stir the sensitive life of a
political community are central to the knowledge production repertoire of the IR discipline …

El presente artículo desarrolla una historia comparativa de las trayectorias de las sedes del
Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura en México e India durante la década de 1950. El …

Retelling the history of the long struggle between liberty and authority in the opening pages
of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill describes the French Revolution as one of many “temporary …

At Margaret Thatcher's funeral, in 2013, attendees received a program with William
Wordsworth's Immortality Ode printed on the back. This was unsurprising. The ode has …