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Ben Schacht

Ben Schacht is audience engagement editor at Boston Review. Read more about him here.

Reading Lists

The First 9/11

The U.S.-backed coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende took place fifty years ago this week.
Mural on a brick wall—two clapping hands in a light blue circle

Making Hope Possible

On the utopian and dystopian tendencies of our current conjuncture.

The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology

Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?

The Secret History of Revolutions

From the Magna Carta to the Mexican Revolution, there’s more to them than meets the eye.
Painting of the the massacre at Wounded Knee depicting U.S. soldiers firing on Native Americans in a mass grave.

The Pursuit of Empire

The United States routinely contradicts its founding ideals.
The facade of Stonewall Inn with Pride flags waving above it.

Radical Pride

The rebellious origins of LGBTQ liberation

Fantasies of Fatherhood

Paternity is more complex than the stories we tell about it.
Uniformed military member hands child a pallet of bottled water next to a helicopter.

Is Humanitarian Intervention Possible?

Using military force to solve humanitarian crises gained popularity after the Cold War, but decades of foreign policy blunders have called it into question.

A Century of the Frankfurt School

The Institute for Social Research was founded one hundred years ago. We ignore its prescient theorists at our peril.

What Does Fascism Mean Today?

And does it apply to the far right?

Solidarity Makes Us Strong

A reading list for Labor Day 2022.

Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

An “unholy alliance” of state and private industry threatens to undermine democracy and individual autonomy.

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