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WEBMore Americans than ever are worried about the future of democracy. What is the best path to securing it? Lee Drutman leads a forum on expanding our two-party system with responses from Danielle Allen, Maurice Mitchell & Doran Schrantz, Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld, and others. Plus James Goodwin on Project 2025, David Austin Walsh on J.D. Vance, Elizabeth Catte on myths about poverty, and ...
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WEBSep 9, 2024 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. Boston Review is a political and literary forum—a public space for collective reasoning and imagination of a more just world.. Subscribe to our newsletters to get our latest essays, archival selections, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).
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WEBLonesome Would Mean Nothing to Me at All. Teachers told him it was unlikely a child could slip or tumble from that great a height without pushing or prompting. Impossible, they meant to say.
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WEBReclaiming Freedom Freedom has a dual legacy. On the one hand, it evokes struggles associated with the left, from abolition and anticolonialism to women’s and queer liberation. On the other hand, it has long been a watchword of the right, from neoliberals to white nationalists. This issue reclaims freedom as a fundamental political value ...
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WEBJul 16, 2024 · Boston Review is a political and literary forum—a public space for collective reasoning and imagination of a more just world.. Subscribe to our newsletters to get our latest essays, archival selections, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).
Our Top Pieces of 2021 - Boston Review
WEBDec 28, 2021 · Our Top Pieces of 2021. This year began with hope for vaccines, a new U.S. president, and generally brighter days. But the January 6 attack on the Capitol quickly tarnished our optimism, and nearly a year later we find ourselves facing a holiday wave of soaring COVID-19 infections (again) and Biden’s Build Back Better plan dead in the water.
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WEB12 hours ago · In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a post-totalitarian fascism that survives sans Führer, sans one-party rule, sans SA or SS,” he wrote. “From Lithuania to California ...
Can Social Democracy Win Again? - Boston Review
WEB14 hours ago · The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy. Kjell Östberg. Verso, $34.95 (cloth) When Bernie Sanders was asked in a 2016 Democratic presidential debate what “democratic socialism” meant to him, he responded that we should “look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway.”. Hillary Clinton was unequivocal in …