Science

Advertising Away Our Privacy

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

  • Evgeny Morozov

What’s in a Name?

A Case for Pseudonyms

  • Jillian C. York

Thinking in an Emergency

An Interview with Elaine Scarry

  • David V. Johnson
  • Elaine Scarry

Strongly Worded Dissents

A Conversation

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury

Apocalypse

There are no natural disasters, only social ones.

  • Junot Díaz

Vanishing Point

Few people have heard of Baird’s tapir, and fewer still know anything about them.

  • Niall McCann

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Feast and Famine

India is growing, but Indians are still starving.

  • Siddhartha Deb

The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation

 If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Passing Through

Why the Open Internet Is Worth Saving

  • Evgeny Morozov

Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins

Can Technology End Poverty?

Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.

  • Kentaro Toyama
with responses from
  • Nicholas Negroponte
  • Dean Karlan
  • Archon Fung
  • Evgeny Morozov
  • Ignacio Mas
  • Nathan Eagle
  • Jenny C. Aker
  • Christine Zhenwei Qiang

The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley

Books After Amazon

Amazon isn’t just bad for cities; it’s also bad for books.

  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby

Colonial Studies

What humans can learn from the non-hierarchical organization of ants.

  • Deborah M. Gordon

Preparing for Climate Change

A Boston Review Book

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

  • Evgeny Morozov

Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Conflicts of interest undermine the goals of medical care and harm the public.

  • Marcia Angell
with responses from
  • Adriane Fugh-Berman
  • David Korn
  • Howard Brody
  • Dan W. Brock
  • Frank Britt & Marissa Seligman
  • Emma D’Arcy
  • Suzanne Gordon
  • David Bollier

Speak, Memory

Can digital storage remember for you?

  • Evgeny Morozov

Unhealthy Opposition

The value of academic-industry relationships.

  • Thomas P. Stossel

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

  • Richard M. Stallman

Africa Calling

Can mobile phones make a miracle?

  • Jenny C. Aker
  • Isaac M. Mbiti

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

  • Ned Block
  • Philip Kitcher
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