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The centerpiece of this issue is a set of exchanges on the topic of women's service in the 19th century. In keeping with this journal's aim to provide a forum for dialogue, the Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network, represented by Laura-Isabella Heitz, Khristeena Lute, Julia Nitz, Sandra H. Petrulionis, and Esther Wetzel, is pleased to share a collection of essays and responses reflecting long-distance academic conversations that took place during the pandemic. The service provided by many women during the pandemic inspired the theme.

Here, honing in on the contradictions of cold war liberalism, Gross reconstructs the fierce debates surrounding the first Bollingen Prize of Poetry, awarded in 1949 to convicted fascist sympathizer Ezra Pound. The decision to honor Pound's Pisan Cantos served to prove just how secure artistic freedom and democracy were in the US. But by detailing George Kennan's role in the controversy, he demonstrates that while liberal ideals, such as artistic freedom, served to contain communism, containment nonetheless relied on the security state's capacities of coercion. Adapted from the source document.

What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching social, political, and cultural transformation.