Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana is Professor of Law and Government at Boston College and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.
The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
Democracy Was a Decolonial Project
For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.
What Does It Take to Keep a Movement Going?
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.
Speaking Liberation’s Language
Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its “sordid history” in the U.S. context.
A Different Freedom
American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
The Limits of Imperial Social Democracy
In practice, domestic equality has often relied on dominance and exclusion.
The U.S. Debt to Syria
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward.
Remember Syria?
U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
Against National Security Citizenship
Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”
America’s Imperial Unraveling
Could Trump’s repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
Against Second-Rate Democracy in Kenya
Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.
