Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen is coeditor of Boston Review, Distinguished Senior Fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and member of the faculty at Apple University. His books include The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Papers.
Letter from the Editors: Our 50th Anniversary
We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north star.
Remembering Andreas Eshete
A revolutionary, philosopher, and devoted patriot, he was among Ethiopia’s leading public intellectuals.
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From the Editors: The Politics of Pleasure
What if “post-growth living” could be an opportunity for greater pleasure, not less?
From the Editors: Rethinking Law
In a deeply unequal society, the law can certainly impede progress, but it also remains an essential resource in building a more just world.
From the Editors: Redesigning AI
Our new book offers a deeper understanding of the current challenges of AI and a rich, constructive, morally urgent vision for redirecting its course.
Realizing a Green Future
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Green New Deal and our new issue, Climate Action.
Democracy Hangs in the Balance
Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now.
Deaths of Despair
Boston Review talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism’s flaws are proving fatal for America’s working class.
From the Editors: On Anger
Our new issue explores anger in its many forms—public and private, personal and political—raising an issue that we must grapple with: Does the vast well of public anger compromise us all?
The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas
Joshua Cohen and Corey Robin discuss the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence—and what it means for those on the left who often dismiss the justice’s use of race.
Everyday Economists
The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?
From the Editors: Economics After Neoliberalism
We live in a world made by neoliberalism, with its hostility to equality and democracy. It is time to stop.
From the Editors: Racist Logic
By examining the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory.
From the Editors: Left Elsewhere
Left Elsewhere puts rural progressives in conversation with their urban cousins.
