David V. Johnson

David V. Johnson is deputy editor at the Stanford Social Innovation Review and coeditor and cofounder of The Raven. He was formerly the web editor of Boston Review.

Lives of the Moral Saints

An Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar

  • David V. Johnson

Making Elections Fairer

An Interview with Archon Fung

  • David V. Johnson

Fighting over the Same Ground

An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • David V. Johnson

The Failure of Thought Leadership

Fareed Zakaria and the plagiarism scandal.

  • David V. Johnson

Sizing Up the Race

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election

  • David V. Johnson
  • Stephen Ansolabehere

The New Religious Intolerance

An interview with Martha Nussbaum on the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

  • David V. Johnson

Men’s Tennis Is More Interesting Than Women’s

But It Doesn’t Have To Be

  • David V. Johnson

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

  • David V. Johnson
  • Pamela S. Karlan

A Court of Her Own

An Interview with Pam Karlan

  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • David V. Johnson

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey

  • David Harvey
  • David V. Johnson

That’s Not Really Destroying America

An interview with Fischer about his new BR column.

  • Claude S. Fischer
  • David V. Johnson

Contraception and Counterrevolution

An Interview with Corey Robin

  • Corey Robin
  • David V. Johnson

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on student loan debt, academia, and the value of education.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on why we don’t put babies’ lives ahead of Citibank’s shareholders and whether we should renew the tradition of debt jubilees.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson

Reclaiming the Republic

In his latest book, Lawrence Lessig argues that Congress has become so corrupted by moneyed interests and has so undermined the public trust that our very republic is at risk.

  • Lawrence Lessig
  • David V. Johnson

What Would Emma Do?

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

  • Vivian Gornick
  • David V. Johnson

Thinking in an Emergency

An Interview with Elaine Scarry

  • David V. Johnson
  • Elaine Scarry

Government’s Place In the Market

A Q&A With Eliot Spitzer

  • Eliot Spitzer
  • David V. Johnson
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