Neoliberalism
The American Corporation Is in Crisis—Let’s Rethink It
For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.
The Future of Political Philosophy
For five decades Anglophone political philosophy has been dominated by the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. With liberalism in crisis, have these ideas outlived their time?
Games Economists Play
The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum’s new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths.
How Democrats Gave Up on Big Government
Embracing Reaganite talking points well before Reagan, liberals themselves turned away from the New Deal vision.
Get Organized
“Organizing is the strategy on which the success of all others depend. Yet it is the strategy that most progressives talk about the least.”
Choosing Hope
Noam Chomsky and Scott Casleton discuss socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today.
Apple’s Newest Store and the Perverse Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism
The Apple Carnegie Library embodies recent developments in philanthropy that should trouble us: the uncritical valorization of philanthro-capitalism and the privatization of public goods and public spaces.
Introducing a Special Project from Boston Review
With democracy now subject to sharp challenges, we are rededicating ourselves to it with a project that aims to pave the way for policymakers and citizens to rethink conventional options.
Quantifying Love
Reputational currency, like China’s Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.
Economics After Neoliberalism
Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.
Puerto Rico’s War on Its Poor
In the 1990s, Puerto Rico showed Washington how militarized policing and privatization can extract profits from poor people of color.
Marxism Without Progress
When philosophy tries to reclaim Marx, the duty to interpret comes before the duty to change.
Don’t Let Them Eat Cake
The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling continues a terrible trend of valuing businesses more than employees and customers.
The Market Police
Neoliberals need state power to enforce market relations. To protect it from democratic control, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
The Disillusionment of Post-Soviet Europe
To understand why Europe seems more balkanized now than ever, we must look to Eastern Europe’s failed reconstruction.
Mark Lilla and the Crisis of Liberalism
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
Coates and West in Jackson
America loves pitting Black intellectuals against each other, but today’s activists need both Coates and West.
The Instagrammable Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism
As we heap scorn on neoliberalism, we risk throwing out some of its most useful ideas.
In the Name of Victims
Looking beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.
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