Natural Woman
With intense pressure to breastfeed and raise Harvard-worthy kids, motherhood has been pushed back to the center of women’s lives. Why?
When the Umpire Throws the Pitches
“It’s my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat,” Chief Justice John Roberts once said. So why does his court tell litigants what to argue?
Exterminate the Brutes
Maryland’s highest court has branded pit bulls “inherently dangerous.” Will the next step be to eliminate the breed?
How to Be Poor
The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.
Much To Answer For
The late James Q. Wilson was praised for his “broken windows” approach to policing, but his true legacy is the world’s highest incarceration rate—and serious damage to American democracy.
BR contributor Glenn Loury and UCLA Professor Mark Kleiman have a spirited debate on James Q. Wilson’s legacy. (Bloggingheads.tv)
essays
Purifying Kashmir
Saudi Arabia Exports Salafism to the War-Torn Region
Tariq Mir
Capitalism and the Urban Struggle
An Interview with David Harvey
David V. Johnson—Web only
The Loneliness Scare
Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem
Claude S. Fischer
Plus: An interview with Fischer about his new BR column—Web only
The American Left, Liberalism, and Equality
An interview with Eli Zaretsky
Sean Fabery—Web only
Beautiful Resistance
Revolutionary Theater in Palestine
Robin D. G. Kelley
Back in Time
Julian Barnes Remembers
Roger Boylan
fiction
The Gulf
In later years I will come to avoid him, but for now, I am eight years old, and the man everyone says is my father is sitting in the living room.
Tania James
Summer of ’76
The Harper brothers acted as if they didn’t see Lola or her car, right in front of them, plain as day.
Phyllis Alexander
Sites of Interest: Boston Smarts
Forums
The Port Huron Statement at 50
In 1962, Tom Hayden drafted a document that would launch a decade of student protest and mass action for a more democratic society.
A forum on the declaration that launched an era of activism, with essays by Tom Hayden, Kim Phillips-Fein, Bill Ayers, Angus Johnston, Eric Mann, Kirkpatrick Sale, Danielle Allen, Jennifer Hochschild, Trevor Stutz, and Bernardine Dohrn
State of the Nation
Crime and Punishment
Public Safety Doesn’t Require More Inmates
Bruce Western
The End of Nothing
Segregation Is Still a Problem in the United States
Ryan D. Enos—Web only
poetry
One Bird Behind One Bird
Amy King
2012 “Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners
Mario Chard, Rebecca Hazelton, Rosalie Moffett, and Franke Varca
Poetry on the Brink
Reinventing the Lyric
Marjorie Perloff
National Poetry Month 2012
A special package in celebration of verse
Protective Balls
Scott Withiam
Poetry Microreviews
New books by Forrest Gander, Dean Young, Peter Richards, Sommer Browning, and Niels Frank
Manifesto for Tumor and Poem
Jo Ann Clark
More Poetry & Poetry Criticism
On Film
Never So Free
Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.
Alan A. Stone
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