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Burrow

  • Margaret Ross
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Assisted Living

  • Margaret Ross
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There Are Two Pools You May Drink From

Winner of the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

  • Kerry-Lee Powell
Science

What’s Wrong with Technological Fixes?

Evgeny Morozov answers questions about his new book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.

  • Evgeny Morozov
  • Terry Winograd
Class & Inequality Law Philosophy Science

Beyond Blame

The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It’s time to move past blame.

  • Barbara H. Fried
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  • Paul Bloom
  • Christine M. Korsgaard
  • Gideon Rosen
  • Erin Kelly
  • Brian Leiter
  • Adriaan Lanni
  • George Sher
  • Mike Konczal
  • T. M. Scanlon
Law Politics

The Rise of Narendra Modi

A new biography tells the story of his rise to political prominence.

  • Zahir Janmohamed

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Same-Day Resolution

 

  • Trey Moody
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Divide and Conquer Algorithm for the Pacifist

  • Jeff Encke
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The Not-Saying

On the renunciation of poetry.

  • Christina Davis
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The Greater Gatsby

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

  • Alan A. Stone
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To Be a God

  • Justin Boening
Class & Inequality Law

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

A Conversation with Jonathan M. Katz

  • Colin Dayan
Law Philosophy Race

The Constitution Without the Court

Protecting Americans' Rights Is Not a Job for the Judiciary Alone

  • Pamela S. Karlan

From the Editors: July/August 2013

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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Can Liberals Get a Witness?

The left’s separation from the churches means continuing estrangement from middle America.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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Light of the World

Remembering Ficre Ghebreyesus.

  • Elizabeth Alexander
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Pink Reef

Introduction by Timothy Donnelly

  • Robert Fernandez
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Song of Upbringing

  • Chuya Nakahara
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Poem for Four Years

  • Danniel Schoonebeek
Law Philosophy

Our Collaboration with the Stanford Ethics Center

The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University has partnered with Boston Review to share content from its fellows and guest lecturers.

  • Deborah Chasman
Law Politics

War Without Strategy

The United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

  • Jonathan Hafetz
Law

Who Says the NSA’s Metadata Collection Is Legal?

On the limitations of secret judicial review.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
Law Politics

Turkey’s Non-Crisis

The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.

  • Wajahat Ali
  • Haroon Moghul
Class & Inequality Science

Are MOOCs Good for Students?

The push for online learning is bad for literacy and bad for democracy.

  • Thomas Leddy
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