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As a God Might Be

The recurring—and often conflicting—narratives of technology and progress.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn
Arts in Society

“Lilies” for C. D. Wright (1949-2016)

A lyric tribute to the celebrated American poet, who passed in early January.

  • Laynie Browne
Philosophy Politics

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell
Arts in Society

Want (18) and (19)

  • Rusty Morrison
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New Poetry, February 2016

New books from Juan Felipe Herrera, Caroline Knox, Susie Timmons, and more.

  • Boston Review
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Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

  • Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

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Parade

  • Bret Shepard
Law Science

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny

  • Anna Clark
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A Strange and Quiet Fullness

The poet Charles Simić is the ultimate ideological skeptic.

  • Robert Archambeau
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Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts

Spiritual warfare on the campaign trail.

  • Laura Premack
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Footnoting Biggie Lyrics Like Why Christmas Missed Us

  • David Tomas Martinez
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Oddities

  • Barbara Tramonte
Law Politics

How Refugees Can Save Europe

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

  • Paul Linden-Retek
Philosophy

To Be and to Do

The life’s work of Giorgio Agamben.

  • Leland de la Durantaye
Science

Rethinking Evolution

Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
Arts in Society

Meditations on Embodiment

What do Joy Division and German far-left revolutionaries have in common?

  • Robert Archambeau
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What Made It Good

  • Allyson Paty
Law Politics

Turkey Descends into Authoritarianism

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

  • Umar Farooq
Philosophy Politics

For Love of Country

Is emotion the key to the good society?

  • Shivani Radhakrishnan
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The Invisibility of Black Women

Black women too often go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

  • Christopher Lebron
Arts in Society

Teacher Feature

Poet-teachers on teaching poetry.

  • Boston Review
Arts in Society

Teacher Feature: A New Magnetic Center

  • Heather Christle
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Teacher Feature: Lessons from the Union Dead

  • DeSales Harrison
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Teacher Feature: The Scorpion in the Room

  • Shane McCrae
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