Politics

Reclaiming the Republic

In his latest book, Lawrence Lessig argues that Congress has become so corrupted by moneyed interests and has so undermined the public trust that our very republic is at risk.

  • Lawrence Lessig
  • David V. Johnson

We Are All Khaled Said

An Interview with the Administrators of the Facebook Page that Fueled the Egyptian Revolution

  • Anver M. Emon
  • Ellen Lust
  • Audrey Macklin

The People and the Patriots

Who led whom in the American Revolution?

  • Alfred F. Young

Politics by Other Means

The Egyptian uprising has been rightly celebrated as a momentous event.

  • Mona El-Ghobashy

The Return of States’ Rights

Rick Perry and the Right's Counterrevolutionary Revolution

  • Tom Barry

Libertarianism and Liberty

It’s not clear how libertarians argue from their starting point of liberty to their policy conclusion of limited government and lower taxes.

  • T. M. Scanlon
with responses from
  • J. Bradford DeLong
  • Will Wilkinson

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What Would Emma Do?

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

  • Vivian Gornick
  • David V. Johnson

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians are ambivalent about statehood bid.

  • Mya Guarnieri

Unfair Advantages

Selling Asymmetric War at the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Trade Show

  • Joseph Nevins

Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street

I had always thought that surely cops wouldn’t hurt people without a really good reason. But they do.

  • Jeanne Mansfield

Video: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on September 22, 2011

  • Noam Chomsky
  • Joshua Cohen

American Autumn

Protest Groups Bring the Arab Spring to the United States

  • Nathan Schneider

The Constructive Responsibility of Intellectuals

Using Privilege to Advance Democracy and Justice

  • Archon Fung

Railroad Blues

The smaller Democratic clusters along the rivers and railroads are overwhelmed by their solidly Republican surroundings. 

  • Jonathan Rodden
  • Jowei Chen

Sometimes an Amendment Is Just an Amendment

Anti-immigrant activists argue that the citizenship clause does not mean what it says. They are wrong.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using privilege to challenge the state.

  • Noam Chomsky

My Hungry Soul

Alfred Kazin’s raw materials.

  • Vivian Gornick

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court Precedent Sets Back Worker Rights

  • Jessica Garrick
  • Andrew Schrank

Seriously Funny

On Howard Jacobson, the Jewish Jane Austen.

  • Roger Boylan

Extreme Injury

Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.

  • Elaine Scarry

Freedom Is a Way of Life

The Arab Summer in Tunisia

  • Josh Martin

Accounting Failure

What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank

  • Francine McKenna

Border Wars

A Boston Review Book

  • Tom Barry

Who Represents the Poor?

The limits of the NGO movement in global development.

  • Pranab Bardhan
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