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Jonathan Kirshner is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College. His most recent book is An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. His writing on film also appears in Cinéaste and New Left Review.
Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.
His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.
The director’s life reflected both the feats and the failures of the postwar U.S. experience.
A decade after the financial crisis, economists still have not rethought macroeconomics. A new history takes on the field's unrepentant hubris.
A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.
A reckless foreign policy could bring ruin at home and abroad.
Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn't win.
Niall Ferguson’s protestations aside, Henry Kissinger was the quintessential foreign policy realist.
Sure, the system worked—we avoided another Great Depression. But it worked much better for some than for others.
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