A Political and Literary Forum
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Adam Przeworski
The Republican Party has become a white nationalist party. If old fashioned politics can’t change that, we must consider alternatives.
Bernard E. Harcourt
Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.
Archon Fung
Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.
Jan-Werner Müller
Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now.
Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen
COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.
Matt Lord
The only antidote to despair over national politics will be to generate and expand new solutions at local, state, and regional levels.
Michael Gecan
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking. What lessons might we draw for our own age of QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaccination, and strange COVID-19 cures?
Samuel Clowes Huneke
Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
Alberto Toscano
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.
Julie C. Suk
Donald Trump's winning strategy.
Vital reading on politics, literature, and more in your inbox
Most Read
Joshua Cohen, Boston Review
Ronald Aronson
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Copyright © 1993-2021 Boston Review and its authors.
Support Boston Review
Make a tax-deductible donation today