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Matt Lord

Matt Lord is Executive Editor of Boston Review. A first-generation college student, he grew up in Georgia and studied literature, mathematics, and philosophy at MIT and Harvard.

Articles

Introducing our summer 2023 issue: What does solidarity mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change the world?

Deborah Chasman, Matt Lord

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Matt Lord

Reading Lists

“Do we approach the photograph as spectators, or as citizens of the world?”
Roe v. Wade is increasingly under threat.
A close look at the legacy of trickle-down taxation.
On the state of labor.
American politics has seen the fiercest resurgence of left-liberal conflict since the 1960s.

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