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Managing Innocence
The Innocence Movement faces a perverse rhetorical puzzle: righting the isolated wrongful conviction only reinforces public faith in the system as a whole.
In the Name of Public Safety
The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.
Rewriting Poland
Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.
Sorry, Not Sorry
Boots Riley’s film Sorry to Bother You roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.
Announcing the 2018 Winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest
Congratulations to Kim Parko!
What We Talk About When We Talk About Liberalism
The language of liberal politics is confused.
MLK Now
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?
Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.
Jews in Britain Are Not Facing an Existential Threat
But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.
What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech
Fascist politics exploits freedom of speech for authoritarian ends.
What Would Frances Perkins Do?
FDR’s labor secretary had a vision for forward-looking labor and employment policy.
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