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Literature & Culture

Rewriting Poland

Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.

Marta Figlerowicz

Literature & Culture, Race

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics

What We Talk About When We Talk About Liberalism

The language of liberal politics is confused. But the predicament faced by Democrats today is not new.

Helena Rosenblatt

Poetry

Announcing the 2018 Winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest

Congratulations to Kim Parko!

Forum

MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

Politics

Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.

Jack David Eller

Politics

Jews in Britain Are Not Facing an Existential Threat

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

David R. K. Adler

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech

Fascist politics exploits freedom of speech for authoritarian ends.

Politics

What Would Frances Perkins Do?

This Labor Day, we should turn to Frances Perkins—FDR’s secretary of labor, and the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet—for the elements of a new forward-looking labor and employment policy.

Thomas A. Kochan

Science & Nature

Programming My Child

Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children.

Politics

Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous ‘Dharma’

Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.

Errol Morris, Deborah Chasman

Race

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Class & Inequality

The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade

Think Different

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Public Benefit, Incorporated

Lenore Palladino

Marx’s New Deal

Marshall Steinbaum

The Market Police

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

Free the Beach

Andrew W. Kahrl

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

Race

Hoverboarding While Black

Clarence Harlan Orsi

A Love Supreme

Sorry, Not Sorry

Robin D. G. Kelley

MLK Now

Brandon M. Terry

Janelle Monáe for President

Christopher Lebron

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

Stephen Kantrowitz

Free the Beach

Andrew W. Kahrl

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Black AfterLives Matter

READING LISTS

Prison Strike 2018

READING LIST

Surveying incarceration: from Attica to Appalachia and prison profiteering to “poverty penalties.”

Liberalism and the Left

READING LIST

American politics has seen the fiercest resurgence of left-liberal conflict since the 1960s. These pieces survey what’s at issue—from identity politics and the legacy of the Clintons, to Sanders, socialism, and the future of the Democratic Party.

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