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“An indispensable pillar of the public sphere.” —Alondra Nelson. Boston Review is a political and literary forum—a public space for discussion of ideas, politics, and culture. Independent and nonprofit, animated by hope and committed to equality, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Our Most Loved Pieces of 2024 - Boston Review
Dec 18, 2024 · As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, been haunted by what hasn’t: Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Gaza, an abortion landscape decimated by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the steady forward march of corporate-owned AI.
Democratic Disenchantment - Boston Review
Aug 19, 2024 · Within weeks, President Emmanuel Macron rescinded the fuel tax increase. He soon offered ambitious democracy initiatives of his own: first, a “Great Debate” involving more than 10,000 local meetings and 2 million online comments, and second, a Citizens’ Convention on Climate (CCC), which asked 150 randomly selected citizens to propose solutions to the climate crisis, with the promise ...
Fall 2024 - Boston Review
Editors’ Note Forum: The AI We Deserve. Evgeny Morozov. With responses from Brian Eno, Audrey Tang, Terry Winograd, Bruce Schneier & Nathan Sanders, Sarah Myers West & Amba Kak, Wendy Liu, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Brian Merchant.
Article Archive - Boston Review
Our Most Loved Pieces of 2024. The essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most. The New Old Warfare. The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.
Issues Archive - Boston Review
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Politics Archives - Boston Review
Dec 5, 2024 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work.
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Summer 2024 - Boston Review
Editors’ Note Forum: We Need More Parties. Lee Drutman. With responses from Danielle Allen, Deepak Bhargava & Arianna Jiménez, Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld, Josh Lerner, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Grant Tudor & Cerin Lindgrensavage, Joel Rogers, Ian Shapiro, Bob Master, and Maurice Mitchell & Doran Schrantz.