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Democracy v. the Constitution
An interview with Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People, and why defeating authoritarianism requires going back to democratic basics.
Creatures Apart
Shulamith Firestone’s portraits of madness reveal a condition afflicting us all.
Could Ditching Elections Save Democracy?
A new book makes the case for replacing them with a system of government based on random selection.
From the Editors: The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Introducing our Summer 2025 issue, which marks our 50th anniversary.
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Celebrating 50 years of Boston Review
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I go to BR to find emerging writers who are turning our thinking about the world upside down and inside out by treating political economy and social formations like race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship as inextricable. One of those writers is the dazzling Sophie Lewis, who takes a razor-sharp eye to “care work.”
—Lisa Duggan, social critic, on “How Domestic Labor Robs Women of Their Love” (2021)
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Our 50th anniversary issue, on the responsibility of intellectuals, journalists, and all of us in the age of fascism and genocide.
Robin D. G. Kelley leads a special section with David Waldstreicher, Jennifer Zacharia, and Martin O’Neill. Plus Vivian Gornick on Shulamith Firestone, Elaine Scarry on Plato and the poets, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on Gaza, and more.
Israel and Palestine
“Defeating fascism requires more than defeating the current administration. We need to stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it.”
—Robin Kelley, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide”
“The War on Terror expanded presidential authority, severely curtailed civil rights, and made a mockery of the Constitution. Today we are living out the latest chapter of this story.”
—Noura Erakat, “The Boomerang Comes Back”
“A much more promising path to abundance is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a ‘liberalism that builds’ in the United States.”
—Sandeep Vaheesan, “The Real Path to Abundance”
“When Edward Said wrote of the ‘vocation for the art of representing,’ he could have been speaking about Palestinian journalists.”
—Jennifer Zacharia, “Israel’s War on Journalists”
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