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In Search of an Anti-Fascist Language

As Germans learned after World War II, combatting fascist language is harder than just deleting offending terms. Can we find a creative solution that serves today’s needs?

Forum

Democracy's Dilemma

Democracies rely on the free exchange of ideas and information, but that freedom can also be weaponized to erode democratic debate. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?

Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier

Politics

Introducing a Special Project from Boston Review

With democracy now subject to sharp challenges, we are rededicating ourselves to it with a project that aims to pave the way for policymakers and citizens to rethink conventional options.

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Solidarity in Silicon Valley

Tech companies have seen waves of worker protest, but they are still far from democratic. The remedy is to build and exert real forms of worker power inside the workplace.

Politics

Playing with Fire

In their new book, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson describe fighting the fire of the 2008 financial crisis. But while they did rebuild the burnt towers of Wall Street, they left Main Street to dig out from the rubble.

Global Justice

Remembering the Golden Spike Ceremony

The completion of the first transcontinental railroad 150 years ago is remembered as an iconic moment in the history of U.S. westward expansion. But there are other ways to understand the railroad’s significance, and its sharp resonance for our times.

Law & Justice

The Right to Boycott

Since 2014 twenty-seven states have adopted laws that aim to discourage boycotts of Israel. At stake is our First Amendment right to protest state policies.

Radhika Sainath

Race

The Mismeasure of Minds

Twenty-five years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die. Reckoning with its legacy may help redirect the conversation in urgently needed ways.

Michael E. Staub

Science & Nature

The Sins of “Smart” Cities

What happens when we reframe complex social and political issues as technical puzzles? Two new books challenge modern cities' over-reliance on data and technology.

Forum

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The opioid crisis and the War on Drugs are intertwined in the mutually reinforcing framework of racial capitalism.

Philosophy & Religion

The Pacifist Roots of an American Nazi

Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity.

Literature & Culture

Announcing Boston Review’s new Arts in Society project

A radical revisioning of our creative writing programs.

Science & Nature

Nature Defends Itself

Dayton Martindale

The Sins of “Smart” Cities

“Could You Do Any Better Than We Did?”

William T. Vollmann, Ted Hamilton

No Collision

Defensible Space

The Defeat of Reason

Climate Gut Check

Democracy vs. the Algorithm

Clara Hendrickson

Programming My Child

Education & Opportunity

The Erotics of Mentorship

Marta Figlerowicz, Ayesha Ramachandran

A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed

Marshall Steinbaum

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

Richard V. Reeves

The Slow and Fast Assault on Public Education

Henry A. Giroux

We Don’t Need No Education?

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Teaching Citizenship

In the Name of Victims

Kristin Bumiller

Scholars in Exile

Teachers with Guns

READING LISTS

Trans Mothers. Marxist Mothers. Robot Mothers.

READING LIST

—and those who wish they could be mothers. A reading list for Mother’s Day.

What Marx Got Wrong About Capitalism

READING LIST

A Racial Capitalism Reading List

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