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Arts in Society

Poetry Is Poetry

On John Ashbery.

  • James Longenbach
Arts in Society

Little Criminals

Reading Richard Hughes.

  • John Crowley
Law Politics

Reforming Immigration Policy

The rights and protections guaranteed in the protocols for smuggled migrants are below the minimum required by international law. 

  • Jacqueline Bhabha
Class & Inequality Law Politics

American Sweatshops

Organizing workers in the global economy

  • Jennifer Gordon
Law Philosophy Politics

On Belonging

What we owe people who stay.

  • Joseph H. Carens
Class & Inequality Law Politics Race

The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism.

  • Howard Zinn

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Philosophy Politics Science

What We Know

On the universals of language and rights

  • Noam Chomsky
Law Politics

Fear No Freedom

The Sharansky-Bush hypothesis—that spreading freedom will usher in an age of peace—has stymied the human-rights movement.

  • William F. Schulz
Science

No Peace, No War

With world attention now focused on the tsunami and its devastating effects, the story of the Bindunuwewa massacre is easy to forget.

  • Alan Keenan
Arts in Society

Dreamoirs

A short story. 

  • Marian Marzynski
Philosophy

Christ’s Militia

How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.

  • Gary B. Nash
Arts in Society

Microreview: Rebecca Wolff, Figment

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
Politics

Compassion Capital

Bush’s faith-based initiative is bigger than you think.

  • Lew Daly
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Pride

  • Sally Dawidoff
Arts in Society

The Ill–Tempered Clavier

  • Benjamin Paloff
Philosophy Politics

Taking Faith Seriously

Contempt for religion costs Democrats more than votes.

  • Michael Gecan
Arts in Society

Intramuros

Boston Review’s 12th Annual Short-Story Contest winner.

  • Lisa Chipongian
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Book of Storms

  • Brian Kim Stefans
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A State of Emergency

  • Calvin Bedient
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from “A Palace of Pearls”

  • Jane Miller
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Dorothea Lasky

  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Joshua Beckman
Philosophy Politics

American Salvation

The place of Christianity in public life.

  • Albert J. Raboteau
Arts in Society

Redeeming Shylock

Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice.
 

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

The Witness Takes a Stand

June Jordan wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely “as” or “for.”

  • Adrienne Rich
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