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Thou

  • Patty Seyburn
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New Year’s Resolution

  • Jennifer Banks
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The Pursuit

  • Mark DeCarteret
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Xochimilco

A short story.

  • Esmé-Michelle Watkins
Class & Inequality Science

Unhealthy Opposition

The value of academic-industry relationships.

  • Thomas P. Stossel
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The Fourfold

  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski
  • Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Class & Inequality

Taking Economics Seriously

A Boston Review Book

  • Dean Baker
Law Philosophy

The Case of Carter

When rehabilitation fails

  • Daphna Nachminovitch
Arts in Society Law Philosophy Science

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

  • Richard M. Stallman
Law Politics

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.

  • Elaine Scarry
Arts in Society

Review: Petals of Zero, Petals of One

By Andrew Zawacki.

  • Zach Savich
Arts in Society

This Time in Wartime

  • CJ Evans
Arts in Society

Letter to a City Under Siege

  • Carolyn Forché
Class & Inequality Politics

The Rules

The market should deliver public benefits, and government can help ensure that the bounties of capitalism actually are shared for the good of wider society.

  • Eliot Spitzer
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  • Dean Baker
  • Sarah Binder & Andrew Gelman & John Sides
  • Robert Johnson
Politics

State of the Nation: What happened in Massachusetts

Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley sent shock waves through the electoral landscape.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III

From the Editors: March/April 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Law Philosophy

Right By Others

On the theory and practice of justice.

  • Vivian Gornick
Class & Inequality Race Science

Africa Calling

Can mobile phones make a miracle?

  • Jenny C. Aker
  • Isaac M. Mbiti
Politics

Past Forward

Coping with post–Cold War Romania.

  • Paul Hockenos
Class & Inequality Law Politics Science

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz
Philosophy Science

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

  • Ned Block
  • Philip Kitcher
Law Philosophy

Dead Dogs

Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

  • Colin Dayan
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality Politics

Sins of the Father

Alan Stone reviews Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

  • Tess Taylor
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