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Simon Waxman

Simon Waxman has written for the Washington Post, the Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Globe, Democracy Journal, and others. He is an editor at Harvard University Press and was previously managing editor of Boston Review. More can be found at waxmanwrites.wordpress.com.

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Class & Inequality, Politics

A Politics of the Future

Despite the myth that deaths of the elderly are never untimely, the author mourns a friend, fifty years his senior, who succumbed to COVID-19. She taught him that a moral life entails wanting those rewards not only for yourself but for everyone.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice, Race

Mass. High Court Says Black Fears Matter

A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.

Simon Waxman

Politics, War & Security

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

Simon Waxman

Politics, Race

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the U.S. to confront its long-submerged id.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

Colin Dayan’s Ethics Without Reason

The new book "With Dogs at the Edge of Life" asks whether we need less humanity, not more of it.

Simon Waxman

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Thoreau’s Public Mind

The author of Walden was not an enemy of civic life.

Simon Waxman

Science & Nature

GMOs Are Safe—So Let's Label Them

Genetically engineered foods are safe, but there are still good reasons to label them.

Simon Waxman

Class & Inequality, Race

Desegregation Is Not Intolerable Social Engineering

The new HUD desegregation rule is a democratic reform, not a utopian one.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Law & Justice

Racism: Dumb and Personal / Smart and Structural

Opponents often associate racism with ignorance. But intelligent people promote oppression through colorblindness.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice, Race

Police Manipulate Freddie Gray Story Through Leak

One of the many disturbing dimensions of Freddie Gray’s death after riding in a Baltimore Police van is how little the public knows about the circumstances.

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

The Indiana Backlash

Ever since the Indiana legislature passed its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, lawmakers there have been on the defensive.

Simon Waxman

Politics, War & Security

Netanyahu Is Right: U.S.-Israel Relations Are Here to Stay

“Reports of the demise of Israeli-U.S. relations are not only premature, they’re just wrong.” It is hard to disagree.

Simon Waxman

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