Summer 2023
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Spring 2023
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Winter 2023
This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination.
Fall 2022
This issue explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire, centered on movements in the Global South.
Summer 2022
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Spring 2022
This issue argues that law is inseparable from politics, exploring the meaning of the law beyond the Constitution and the courts.
Winter 2022
This arts anthology explores whether and how we can repair the terrible ruptures of political and social life today.
Fall 2021
From climate change to the pandemic, uncertainty looms large over our public and personal lives. Eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophic, economic, and emotional aspects, and make clear that uncertainty need not be paralyzing.
Summer 2021
This issue makes the case for industrial policy—what it is, and why we need it now.
Spring 2021
Reckoning with AI’s threats to work, democracy, and justice, this issue asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.
Winter 2021
Editors’ Note Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, & Ivelisse Rodriguez ORIGINS Achal Prabhala, Binyavanga Wainaina Celebrated writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s first piece of fiction was thought to be lost. Recently rediscovered, it appears here twenty-five years after it originally debuted. Read More Duana Fullwiley Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers […]
Fall 2020
Despite decades of activism and scientific consensus about the perils of climate change, our economies remain deeply dependent on fossil fuels. How are we to meet the challenge of global warming before it is too late? Climate Action asks what we must do to begin realizing a green future today.
2020 Supplement
Thinking in a Pandemic:The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of COVID-19 Nearly a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in late 2019, the brutal toll of the coronavirus pandemic continues to rise. The result has been not just a crisis of public health but also a crisis of public […]
Summer 2020
The Politics of Care From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their core is a brutal neoliberal ideology that combines deep structural racism with a relentless assault on social welfare. Its […]
Spring 2020
The Right to Be Elected What might happen if a woman’s right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected? Why are other countries so much better than the United States at electing women to office? In her lead essay in this anthology, Jennifer Piscopo argues that women in the United […]
Winter 2020
Anger looms large in our public lives. Should it? Reflecting on two millennia of debates about the value of anger, Agnes Callard contends that efforts to distinguish righteous forms of anger from unjust vengeance, or appropriate responses to wrongdoing from inappropriate ones, are misguided. What if, she asks, anger is not a bug of […]
Fall 2019
FICTION Fiction Sagit Emet Two orphans, who believe they are too old to ever be adopted, get a surprise chance. Translated from the Hebrew by Yaron Regev. Short Story Read More Fiction Samuel R. Delany In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con […]
Summer 2019
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen Forum Opening Read more Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman, Suresh Naidu Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Robert Manduca In the 1940s and ’50s, the general public understood and agreed […]
Spring 2019
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: How Race Made the Opioid Crisis Opening Read more Donna Murch Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Peter James Hudson The expansion of banks […]
Winter 2019
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: Finding the Future in Radical Rural America Opening Read more Elizabeth Catte Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Thomas Baxter What happens when a school […]
Fall 2018
Essays Maximillian Alvarez What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now? Read More Nikhil Pal Singh The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free. Read More Adom […]
Summer 2018
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: All Reproduction Is Assisted Opening Read more Merve Emre Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Jill Richards, Silvia Federici Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill […]
Spring 2018
Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, and Stefania Heim Silenic LandscapeAlissa Valles The Human RaceKathy Nilsson The Embarrassment of Being in the WorldKathy Nilsson From Variations on Adonis Jesús Castillo Fresh KillsClaire Hero to know a thingIrène Mathieu From The City is Lush With / Obstructed ViewsGreg Nissan The Golden HourRowan Ricardo Phillips Successor Gyrðir Elíasson (tr. […]
Winter 2018
Forum: MLK Now Opening Read more Brandon M. Terry Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Ed Pavlić Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, a devastated James Baldwin made a […]
Fall 2017
Editor’s Note Junot Díaz Junot Díaz introduces Global Dystopias. Read More Stories Order our Fall 2017 book today to read more. Fiction Sumudu Samarawickrama An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story Read More Charlie Jane Anders “The intake process begins […]
Summer 2017
Forum: Losing and Gaining Public Goods Opening Read more K. Sabeel Rahman Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Bonnie Honig Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal […]
Spring 2017
Brishen Rogers Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution? Read More David McDermott Hughes A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future. Read More Peter Kellman, Ed Bruno, […]
Winter 2017
Introduction Robin D. G. Kelley A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America. Read More Forum: To Remake the World Opening Read more Walter Johnson Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays […]
Chapbook
Chapbook is a Boston Review publication that reflects on and responds to our contemporary moment. The very first in the series, Poems for Political Disaster, emerged as a response to Donald Trump’s election. “When freedom is in danger, when you are asked, in one faked way or another, a shabby admonition, to leave your own humanity which includes […]
July/August 2016
Kate Manne leads a forum on the logic of misogyny. Vivian Gornick, Christina Hoff Sommers, Tali Mendelberg, Doug Henwood, Imani Perry, Susan J. Brison, and Amber A’Lee Frost respond. Also in this issue: Michael Bronski, Natalie Diaz, John Ashbery, and more.
May/June 2016
Danielle Allen leads a forum on public education. Deborah Meier, Clint Smith, Michel DeGraff, and Rob Reich respond. Plus, writing by John Ashbery, Josie Graham, Alex de Wall, and more.
March/April 2016
Danielle Allen leads a forum on public education. Deborah Meier, Clint Smith, Michel DeGraff, and Rob Reich respond. Plus, writing by John Ashbery, Josie Graham, Alex de Wall, and more.
January/February 2016
In our first forum of 2016, Jedediah Purdy accepts that there is no longer a nature independent of human meddling—so how then, he asks, do we make that condition more democratic? Alisa Reznick reports on how clean water is being used as a weapon in Syria’s civil war, and David G. Victor questions whether university […]
November/December 2015
Paul Bloom leads a forum discussion on why we crave luxury goods. Martin O’Neill writes about what the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn means for the future of the Radical Left. Jenny Hendrix reviews Sven Birkerts’s new book on the perils of “smart” devices, and Nathan Robinson warns that bad forensic science is ruining criminal justice. […]
September/October 2015
Our 40th anniversary issue. Ira Katznelson leads a forum on the Anxieties of Democracy. Peter Godfrey-Smith reviews Charles Taylor and Hubert Dreyfus’s Retrieving Realism. Judith Levine profiles Ellen Willis. Mike Konczal shows how bureaucracy expands our liberties. Poems by Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Charles Simic, and others. Forum Anxieties of Democracy IRA KATZNELSON DEBATES LARRY KRAMER, HÉLÈNE […]
July/August 2015
Peter Singer leads the forum on the logic of effective altruism. Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Paul Brest, Larissa MacFarquhar, and others respond. Plus: Stephen Steinberg on the Moynihan Report at 50; Claude Fischer writes about the problem with David Brooks; Vivian Gornick reviews Susan Neiman’s Why Grow Up?; and essays on Mary Jo Bang and […]
May/June 2015
K. Sabeel Rahman leads a forum on regulating the growing power of Internet companies. Juliet Schor, Dean Baker, Mike Konczal, and others respond. Jess Row on American cynicism as a (white) lifestyle; Katie Peterson on Jorie Graham; Meghan O’Gieblyn reviews Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; Dave Byrne on Lead Belly. Forum Curbing the […]
March/April 2015
John Bowen leads a forum on France After Charlie Hebdo. Arthur Goldhammer, Joan Wallach Scott, Haroon Moghul, and others respond. Jessa Crispin writes on the incorporation of victimhood into women’s identities; Randall Kennedy warns against the legacy of black power revisionism; Claude Fischer on political correctness. Plus, new poems by Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa. […]
January/February 2015
Glenn Loury leads a forum on Ferguson, with responses from Doug Henwood, Danielle Allen, and others. Elsewhere in the issue: Steven Shapin on whether science makes you good, Samuel Moyn on the origins of liberalism, Amy Dean profiles Richard Trumka, and Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on affirmative consent laws. Forum Ferguson Won’t Change Anything. What Will? […]
November/December 2014
Paul Hockenos on a group of young anarchists in East Berlin. Plus: Henry Farrell on Ireland’s Cold War; Mike Konczal on public goods, profits, and state legitimacy; Vivian Gornick on the state of contemporary feminism; Stephen Phelan after Scotland’s Independence Referendum. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Zero Hour: The First Days of New […]
September/October 2014
Forum Against Empathy Paul Bloom — with responses from: LESLIE JAMISON, PETER SINGER, LEONARDO CHRISTOV-MOORE AND MARCO IACOBONI, JACK W. BERRY AND LYNN E. O’CONNOR, BARBARA H. FRIED, SIMON BARON-COHEN, MARIANNE LAFRANCE, ELIZABETH STOKER BRUENIG, NOMY ARPALY, SAM HARRIS, CHRISTINE MONTROSS, AND JESSE PRINZ. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Marriage […]
July/August 2014
Forum Build the Green Economy Robert Pollin — with responses from: MADELINE JANIS, LESLIE DEWAN, GEORGE R. TYNAN AND DAVID G. VICTOR, MARA PRENTISS, SANYA CARLEY, REED HUNDT, AND SIMON CANEY. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Who Cares About Climate Change? Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky Dispatch: People v. […]
May/June 2014
Forum Saving Privacy Reed Hundt — with responses from: WITH RESPONSES FROM MARVIN AMMORI AND ADAM KERN, RICHARD M. STALLMAN, REBECCA MACKINNON, ARCHON FUNG, FRANK PASQUALE, JENNIFER GRANICK, BRUCE SCHNEIER, JEREMY K. KESSLER, AND EVGENY MOROZOV. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Is Get-Out-the-Vote Bad for Democracy? Anthony Fowler […]
March/April 2014
Forum How Finance Gutted Manufacturing Suzanne Berger — with responses from: DEAN BAKER, JOEL ROGERS AND DAN LURIA, DAN BREZNITZ, SUSAN N. HOUSEMAN, MIKE ROSE, NICHOLA LOWE, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, GARY HERRIGEL, CATHERINE TUMBER, AND DAVID WEIL. SUZANNE BERGER REPLIES. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: CEO Jackpot Sam Pizzigati […]
January/February 2014
Forum What Killed Egyptian Democracy? Mohammad Fadel — with responses from: ELLIS GOLDBERG, MICHELINE ISHAY, NATHAN J. BROWN, ANDREW F. MARCH, AKBAR GANJI, AND ANNE NORTON. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Who’s Hot? John Sides and Michael Tesler Dispatch: Under the Cross in China Xiao-bo Yuan Made in […]
November/December 2013
Forum Moral Wounds: The Ethics of Volunteer Military Service Jeff McMahan — with responses from: ASSAF SHARON, BRIAN IMIOLA, SHANNON E. FRENCH, SETH LAZAR, ADIL AHMAD HAQUE, LAWRENCE J. KORB, LIONEL K. MCPHERSON, CHARLES J. DUNLAP JR., KIMBERLEY BROWNLEE, AND MATT GALLAGHER. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: A […]
September/October 2013
Forum The Truth About GMOs Pamela Ronald — with responses from: Marc Gunther, Greg Jaffe, Margaret Mellon, Rosamond Naylor, Robert Paarlberg, Nina Fedoroff, Tim Burrack, Jennie Schmidt, and Jack Heinemann. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Job Openings Paul Osterman and Andrew Weaver Under the Rock Haroon Moghul Made […]
July/August 2013
Forum Beyond Blame Barbara H. Fried — with responses from: CHRISTINE KORSGAARD, PAUL BLOOM, GIDEON ROSEN, ERIN KELLY, BRIAN LEITER, ADRIAAN LANNI, GEORGE SHER, MIKE KONCZAL, AND T. M. SCANLON. Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Foundations State of the Nation: Ages and Wages Gary Burtless High in Uruguay Michelle García Made in America: Extremely Local Claude S. Fischer Karlan’s Court: The […]
