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Saving Privacy

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

  • Reed Hundt
with responses from
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • Marvin Ammori & Adam Kern
  • Archon Fung
  • Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Jennifer Granick
  • Frank Pasquale
  • Jeremy K. Kessler
  • Bruce Schneier
  • Evgeny Morozov
Arts in Society Politics Race

Imperial Methods

Peter Matthiessen’s Orientalism.

  • Joel Whitney
Philosophy

The Weak Self: Christopher Lasch on Narcissism

In Response to Vivian Gornick

  • George Scialabba
Arts in Society

Annunciation

  • Courtney Kampa
Class & Inequality Law Race

Democracy in South Africa

After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?

  • Tim Cohen
Gender & Sexuality Philosophy

In Defense of Narcissism

When narcissism was pathologized, reformers were labeled as narcissists and discontent swept under the rug.

  • Vivian Gornick

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From the Editors: May/June 2014

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Philosophy

When Money Shrinks Democracy

We are moving into an era where the direct influence of money on politics breaches new ground.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

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  • Evie Shockley
Arts in Society

National Poetry Month 2014

It's simple: every day in April, we're publishing a poem.

  • Boston Review
Class & Inequality Gender & Sexuality Philosophy

Women and Children First

Dora Russell and the evolution of feminisim.

  • Judith Levine
Arts in Society

Straight Razor

An Interview with Randall Mann

  • Ricardo Maldonado
  • Randall Mann
Arts in Society

I Resign

  • Randall Mann
Arts in Society

Three Poems

  • Andrew Gorin
Arts in Society

Manual for Remembering

  • Sina Queyras
Class & Inequality

Studying the Rich

Thomas Piketty dismantles received economic wisdom on inequality—including the idea that it is necessary for a rising tide to lift all boats.

  • Mike Konczal
Arts in Society

Fifteen Answers of the King to His Questioners

  • Danniel Schoonebeek
Arts in Society

Living the Dream

Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Three Poems

  • Charlotte Lieberman
Arts in Society

To move and the play.

  • Thomas Hummel
Arts in Society

Two Poems

  • Camille Rankine
Arts in Society

Seven Questions on Milk and Filth

  • Lynn Melnick
  • Carmen Giménez Smith
Arts in Society

My Body

  • Carmen Giménez Smith
Arts in Society

They Came to Bury Him

Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics

  • Diana Arterian
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