Why Does the Media Defend Drone Operators?
We don’t need to hear a pilot’s perspective.
A Philosophy of Philosophers
New translations of Wittgenstein, Bachmann, and more in today’s reading list.
Do Laws Criminalizing Sex Work Violate the Constitution?
New writing on sex in today’s reading list.
Our Best Film Writing for Oscars Weekend
From Hollywood hits to cult classics.
Where Egalitarianism Went Wrong
—and what it still has to offer. A reading list on equality, Rawls, and the struggle for a more just world.
Are Harvard’s Admissions Practices Racist?
–and other questions, as the controversial case is set to go before the Supreme Court.
Revisiting the Revolution
A reading list featuring historians on the American Revolution.
Reviving the Radical King
“Forget the dream, he called for a revolution.” An MLK Day reading list on how his radicalism was erased.
Five Years without Cedric Robinson
A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.
Poetry Collection: Belonging
The first in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
Gun Control Laws Could Soon be Rolled Back
A new case heads to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
How Cyberespionage Became Just Another Office Job
“People won’t think too deeply about it because they’re making good money and working in a nice office all day.”
Saving the News
More than twenty years of writing on our news crisis.
How the Far Right Learned to Love Multilingualism
—and other essays on the use and abuse of language, from Chomsky to Duolingo.
How We Think About Science and Conspiraces
A reading list.
How Not to Fix Our Housing Crisis
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the perils of Black homeownership, and other essays from our archive in today’s reading list.
20 Years of the War on Terror
“9/11 unleashed a particularly virulent strain of the impulse to believe that some among us are less than human.”
Haiti and Afghanistan
How U.S. intervention devastated both.
Coltrane. Monk. Aretha.
A Black music reading list.
Flying Saucers
A reading list on stars, space, and more.
Abolition Isn’t Only About Police
We also need to abolish prisons—as well as put an end to counterterrorism. An abolitionist reading list.
Philosophies of Sports Fandom
A slam dunk reading list on all things sports.
Food for Thought
Our best essays on food and eating from the past forty-six years! From a food anthropologist’s early love affair with Chinese cuisine to the farmers’ protests in India, the pieces in this list consider food from political, cultural, and economic perspectives.
Archival Essays for Juneteenth
“It is a commonplace to say that slavery ‘dehumanized’ enslaved people, but to do so is misleading, harmful, and worth resisting.”
Toward Trans Liberation
“Queerness is not a vertical identity. It hopscotches across communities, blessing only some of us.”
The BR Summer Book Guide
Your beach reads sorted. Fourteen books we loved—and one to avoid at all costs.
Our Favorite Interviews
Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Susan Sontag, and more.
Israel’s War on Palestine
Contrary to Israeli claims of self-defense in response to acts of terrorism, the current crisis reflects decades of brutal Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.
Pandemic Moms. Trans Moms. Marxist Moms. Robot Moms.
—and those who wish they could be mothers. Our annual Mother’s Day reading list.
Why Democracy Needs…
Privacy. Women. Archives. No Cops. Practice. Losers. And more in today’s reading list.
Poetry Collection: Award-Winning Poets
The fourth in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
COVID and the Climate Crisis Can’t Be Separated
—and nor can our health and the health of animals. An earth day reading list.
Poetry Collection: Uplifting Women’s Voices
The third in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
75 Years Without Keynes
We put the renowned economist front and center in today’s reading list.
Who Deserves Forgiveness?
Biden. Student Loans. Incarcerated People. And more in today’s reading list.
Poetry Collection: Empathy
The second in our series of reading lists to celebrate National Poetry Month.
Women Philosophers: A Reading List
We celebrate International Women’s Day.
What Is It like to Be an Octopus?
A reading list on all things mind, brain, and consciousness.
A Black History of Protest
Our third reading list for Black History Month.
Rawls at 100
Happy birthday, John Rawls! We celebrate the political philosopher’s centenary, as well as the 50th anniversary of the publication of “A Theory of Justice.”
Black History in Three Acts
The story of how Black people confront systems of racial capitalism and plot world liberation. A reading list from Robin D. G. Kelley.
Fascism and Trump
Is he really a fascist? A new essay argues yes.
Our Constitutional Crisis
—and how our constitution stacks up against others around the world.
An Indigenous Peoples’ Day Reading List
While the United States may be waking up to its history of Native American genocide, the simple act of renaming is not enough.
One Month to Go, but Our Electoral System Is Broken
Here’s how we can fix it.
Neoliberalism Destroyed the University
—COVID-19 is just the latest nail in the coffin.
White Supremacy and Hiroshima
How the U.S.’s approach to nuclear weapons reinforces racism at home.
How Did We Go from Gay Liberation to Homonormative Reforms?
A reading list for pride month.
