The DC Salon

This month's salon "Are We Separable From Our Origins?" was inspired by Nicholas Lemann's essay in Liberties " The Irony of Southern Jewish History. "

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens gather to together ask and answer the question IS THERE A MORAL AESTHETIC?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens gather to together ask and answer the question IS ICONOCLASM MORAL?

Liberties Journal hosts a monthly conversation in this iteration of which dozens gather to together ask and answer the question Does Success Help?

Chris McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends gather in the Liberties Journal offices to ask and answer the question "Is Curiosity Dangerous?"

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question Is There Honor Without Revenge?

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty New Yorkers together ask and answer the question "Can We Change How We Love?"

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "Can We Change How We love?"

Liberties Journal's associate publisher and managing editor together with sixty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "Can We Learn To Be Alone?"

Chris McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and thirty of their closest friends assemble on New Years eve to together ask and answer the question "Can People Change?"

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "Is Art More Beautiful Than Nature?".

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "Can We Choose Our Beliefs?".

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer the question "may we despair?".

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends ask and answer: Can Nonbelievers Pray?

Christopher McCaffery, Celeste Marcus, and fifty of their closest friends discuss what propaganda is and whether it is easily identifiable.

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a conversation in which a group of interested parties ask and answer whether or not they should like their friends.

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host their spiciest salon yet. Is nationalism inherently evil? Is it the least important of our identities? It is the most important? Can one be loyal to a people but not that people's government? We ask and offer answers to these and more related questions.

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should art be useful?’

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Should love be healthy?’

Christopher McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus host a salon of interested parties who together ask and offer answers to the question ‘Is forgiveness possible?’

Host Chuong Nguyen talks to Celeste Marcus about her most recent essay, After Rape: A Guide For The Tormented. They consider questions like, "Why is rape so difficult to talk about?" "How long does it take to feel okay afterwards?" "Why do so many rapists not think of what they did as rape?"

Chris McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties, host a salon in which they and a group of lively invested parties ask whether or not books are worthwhile. Speakers in order of appearance: Jerome Copulsky, Carlos Lozada, Becca Rothfeld, Mikra Namani, Laura Field, Osita Nwanevu, Nic Rowan, Ari Schulman, Steven Larkin, Zach Wehrwein, Lars Schonand...

Khalil Sayegh, a Palestinian born and raised in Gaza, talks about his experience in the peace-building world and how he intends to change it.

Recording of a salon held on October 19th with Arash Azizi about socialism, liberalism, and the Israeli Palestinian conference. EVENT UPDATE: This salon is being reframed in light of the current crisis in the Middle East: Arash Azizi,  a specialist on Iran , and Celeste Marcus, a  liberal Zionist , will discuss how Arash’s socialism and my liberalism inform our views of the current paroxysms. Both...

In the first in a series Liberties X Interintellect salons, Benjamin Moser joins Celeste Marcus to discuss his forthcoming book The Upside Down World. Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Moser was overwhelmed by the language, people, and culture. The great painters of the Dutch Golden Age —Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer among them— offered him entry into his strange new universe. Th...