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Arts in Society Politics

Son of Madonna

Whereas Christians know Jesus as the son of God, Muslims know him simply as the son of Mary.

  • Haroon Moghul
Class & Inequality Politics

Occupy the Future

A Boston Review Book

  • David B. Grusky
  • Rob Reich
  • Debra Satz
  • Doug McAdam
Arts in Society

Echoes

  • Lindsay Turner
Arts in Society

The Suffering of Others

Jorie Graham's PLACE.

  • David Micah Greenberg
Arts in Society

Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton’s Needle

  • John Ashbery
Arts in Society

Recent History

  • John Ashbery

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On Ninjas

  • Jane Yeh
Arts in Society

Station

  • Andrew Zawacki
Arts in Society

Là

  • Andrew Zawacki
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler

Works by Grant Souders.

  • Grant Souders
Arts in Society

A Parable

  • Anna Maria Hong
Arts in Society

To the Shopping Mall

  • Vincent Guerra
Arts in Society

No Sky

  • Martha Ronk
Arts in Society

Glut Reactions

The Demographics of American Poetry

  • Mike Chasar
  • Jed Rasula
Class & Inequality

Pomp and Exceptional Circumstance

How Students Are Forced to Prop Up the Education Bubble

  • Malcolm Harris
Law Philosophy

The Checkpoint

On patrolling West Bank checkpoints as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

  • Oded Na’aman
Arts in Society

Waiting for Tear Gas

In our dreams the picket lines/ were picket fences. In our dreams…

  • Tung-Hui Hu
Science

What We Know About Climate Change

On the long and fraught history of the climate change debate.

  • Kerry Emanuel
Class & Inequality

Promoting Social Mobility

The accident of birth is a principal source of inequality in America today.

  • James J. Heckman
with responses from
  • Mike Rose
  • Robin West
  • Charles Murray
  • Carol S. Dweck
  • David Deming
  • Neal McCluskey
  • Annette Lareau
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Adam Swift & Harry Brighouse
  • Geoffrey Canada
Law

War Is Betrayal, Redux

Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.

  • Chris Hedges
with responses from
  • Roy Scranton
  • Chris Lombardi
  • Phillip Carter
  • William Treseder
  • Joyce S. Goldberg
Philosophy Science

Remarkable Facts

On Thomas Nagel’s radical claim that science should go teleological.

  • Elliott Sober
Class & Inequality

Shopping for Good

A Boston Review Book

  • Dara O’Rourke
Class & Inequality Philosophy Science

Happiness Policy

Should economists be studying happiness?

  • Claude S. Fischer
Class & Inequality Philosophy

Free Market Fairness

Is there a moral case for free markets?

  • Martin O’Neill
  • Thad Williamson
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