The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela
Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez
In Caracas, the graffiti reads, “Kill a Zionist and Get Your Flour at Mercal.” Mercal is Venezuela’s government-sponsored food-distribution center, created by President Hugo Chávez.
Boston Review’s Summer Reading
Winner of BR’s 16th Annual Fiction Contest
Jessica Treglia
A Post-Guantánamo Story
Amy Waldman
“The administration’s claims about cyber-security as a key national security problem could lead to policies with serious, long-term, troubling consequences for network openness and personal privacy.”
Evgeny Morozov
State of the Nation
How has the Madoff scandal affected public perception of Jews and the financial crisis?
Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit
essays
Dispatch from the Hebron hills — web only
David Shulman
Prospects for a two-state solution
Jeremy Pressman
Two recent books challenge the idea that individuals get what they deserve.
Claude S. Fischer
Fix the school or fix the neighborhood? What we really need is both.
James Forman, Jr.
When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.
Dean Baker
What can faith-based activism do for labor?
Nancy MacLean
Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots—web exclusive
Michael Gecan
BR’s co-editor on the pitfalls of “classical liberalism”—web exclusive
Joshua Cohen
Afghan elites face a corrosive past
Barnett R. Rubin
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poetry
The new poems are, as critic Douglas Mao puts it, “faithful to the thing represented” and “thing in itself.”
Stephen Burt
Ciaran Carson's For All We Know
Piotr Florczyk
The 2009 Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize winners: Bridget Lowe,
Jynne Dilling Martin,
Jeffrey Schultz, and
Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo.
Hear Jeffrey Schultz read his work at the NewsHour’s Art Beat blog.
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