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Jonathan Kirshner

Jonathan Kirshner is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College. His most recent book is An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. His writing on film also appears in Cinéaste and New Left Review.

Articles

Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.

Jonathan Kirshner

His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

Jonathan Kirshner
Why we should err on the side of inaction—and why we won’t.
Jonathan Kirshner

The director’s life reflected both the feats and the failures of the postwar U.S. experience.

Jonathan Kirshner
A new biography reveals the full scope of John Maynard Keynes’s critique of unfettered capitalism, emphasizing the economist’s larger philosophical vision of the good life.
Jonathan Kirshner

A decade after the financial crisis, economists still have not rethought macroeconomics. A new history takes on the field's unrepentant hubris.

Jonathan Kirshner

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

A reckless foreign policy could bring ruin at home and abroad.

Jonathan Kirshner

Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn't win.

Jonathan Kirshner

Niall Ferguson’s protestations aside, Henry Kissinger was the quintessential foreign policy realist.

Jonathan Kirshner

Preventing the next financial crisis.

Jonathan Kirshner

Sure, the system worked—we avoided another Great Depression. But it worked much better for some than for others. 

Jonathan Kirshner

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