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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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Law & Justice, Race

Americans Love King Because They Don't Understand Him

We should celebrate the actual King and his radicalism rather than the inoffensive persona created to serve the status quo.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice, Race

Righteous Indignation in Ferguson

In Ferguson, white violence, exclusively, is justified.

Simon Waxman

Politics, War & Security

The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

Elaine Scarry, Simon Waxman

Law & Justice, Race

Six Shots in Michael Brown

The judicial process cannot account for what matters most: the policies and biases that enable white men to claim justification in the murder of black men.

Simon Waxman

Blog

Market Basket's Fair Deal

Market Basket is as indispensable in working-class towns as it is in gentrifying and well-off neighborhoods.

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

A Hobby Lobby Afterthought

The Supreme Court never agreed that access to contraceptives is a compelling government interest. The consequences may be significant.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Race

What Is Political Correctness?

The project of decontextualizing language.

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Justice Roberts Should Visit an Abortion Clinic

The buffer zone decision is wonderfully logical but also divorced from real experience.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Race

Gangsta Folk

If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted in many folk and country songs?

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality

Belle Knox and the Identity Monster

Little attention has turned to what may be the most revealing element of her defense.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice

Tsarnaev: Dismantle the Gallows

Granting mercy is among humanity’s hardest tasks.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Suffering and the Second Amendment Debate

Should gun deaths be spoken about in the debate about gun control?

Simon Waxman

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