http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net Congratulations to Frances Justine Post, Bridgette Bates, Barbara Claire Freeman, and Cynthia Lowen, all recently-named winners in the "Discovery" 92nd Street Y poetry contest. Also, congratulations to Patricia Engel, winner of the 15th annual Boston Review fiction contest. Patricia Engel, Frances Justine Post, Bridgette Bates, Barbara Claire Freeman, and Cynthia Lowen 8 May 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR33.3/hogeland.php Historian and debunker William Hogeland takes on two idealists in his new essay, peering beneath the whitewash to examine their illuminating early mistakes. William Hogeland 8 May 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR33.3/mda.php Author Zakes Mda explores the relationship between fiction and empathy in this essay, and why Apartheid required South African writers like himself to explore realms beyond conventional realism. Zakes Mda 8 May 08 http://bostonreview.net/BRwebonly/junot.php Junot Diaz, fiction editor for the Boston Review, was recently named winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Diaz 8 April 08 http://bostonreview.net/BRwebonly/blix.php On the five-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Dr. Blix spoke with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Associate Editor of Boston Review Books, about what makes a good diplomat, the Iraq inspections, and his new book, published with the Boston Review. Hans Blix speaking with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow 1 April 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR33.2/contents.php Internet security controls have weakened since the mid-1990s. With the expansion of the community of users, a universal ethic governing activity on the Internet has evaporated. Jonathan Zittrain 11 March 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR33.2/rawls.php In a letter to a colleague, John Rawls reflects on baseball John Rawls 11 March 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR33.1/rosen.php Jihadists, with fewer targets in Iraq, are moving their fight to new fronts. Rosen investigates a group of de-territorialized fighters, who were able to find cover, if not acceptance, in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Nir Rosen 16 January 08 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/dayan.php Do prisoners have a right to read what they want? The author considers Beard v. Banks Colin Dayan 21 December 07 http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/milani.php Understanding how president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power is critical to an informed policy on Iran. Abbas Milani's article is a valuable primer linking Iran's past to the current political landscape. Abbas Milani 19 November 07 http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/ganji.php Leading Iranian dissident, Akbar Ganji, challenges gender apartheid in Iran. Akbar Ganji 19 November 07 http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net/BR32.5/martinez.php An international court system is a concept usually associated with the twentieth century. Serving justice across borders, however, was already in the works with the abolition of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. The UK developed a system of courts whose influence can be seen today in the modern International Criminal Court. Jenny S. Martinez 11 October 07 http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net/BR32.5/rosen.php Nir Rosen examines the growing humanitarian crisis that is the flood of Iraqi refugees fleeing their war-torn home. Nir Rosen 11 October 07 http://bostonreview.net/ A Political and Literary Forum en-us http://bostonreview.net/BR32.4/loury.html "The conservative scholar John DiIulio, who coined the term “super-predator” in the early 1990s, was by the end of that decade declaring in The Wall Street Journal that “ Two Million Prisoners Are Enough.” But there was no political movement for getting America out of the mass-incarceration business. The throttle was stuck. A more convincing argument is that imprisonment rates have continued to rise while crime rates have fallen because we have become progressively more punitive: not because crime has continued to explode (it hasn’t), not because we made a smart policy choice, but because we have made a collective decision to increase the rate of punishment." Glenn C. Loury 19 July 07 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.3/tumber.html "Learning from Martin Luther King Jr., contemporary religious progressives would do well to look for signs of religious integrity without using a political prism." Catherine Tumber 24 May 07 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.3/blix.html "The global process of arms control and disarmament has stagnated in the last decade; it needs to be revived and pursued in parallel with efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction to more states and to terrorist movements. . . . Perhaps it would be a little less difficult to persuade Iran to suspend its uranium-enrichment program and accept far-reaching verification if the nuclear states negotiating with Iran were ready to do the same." Hans Blix 24 May 07 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.3/ganji.html "Most Iranians, I believe, share a broad outlook on American foreign policy: they think that Iran is valued only for its vast energy resources and its role in regional politics and that Iranian culture and economic development and the peace, welfare, and basic rights of Iranian citizens are largely irrelevant to American policymakers." Akbar Ganji 16 May 07 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.2/birdsall.html "Textbook economics describes a tradeoff between growth and equality. But East Asia's growth seems to have been built upon low initial levels of inequality, from postwar redistribution of farm land and investments in public services. And in Latin America, slow growth and high inequality have gone hand in hand." Nancy Birdsall 22 Mar 07 http://bostonreview.net/BR32.2/chayes.html "The city where I live and work is Kandahar, Afghanistan, which since September 2001 has come to symbolize (at least for Americans) the forces of evil and obscurantism . . . And yet the issues at stake here are not in the least ideological. They are practical--and opportunistic." Sarah Chayes 22 Mar 07 http://bloggingheads.tv/video.php?id=204 Watch Boston Review's co-editor talk with Robert Wright about the January/February issue at BloggingHeads.tv. Josh Cohen 20 Feb 07