Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier is an American-Jewish public intellectual and editor-in-chief of Liberties, a journal of culture and politics. He advocates liberalism as essential for the survival of a free democracy and society. Wieseltier was educated at the universities of Columbia, Oxford and Harvard where he was selected to the Society of Fellows. From 1983 to 2014 he served as the renowned literary editor of The New Republic. He is the author of Against Identity (1996) and of Kaddish (1998), which was translated into many languages and has become a classic about love, death, the accursed questions and the quest for wisdom.