Speaking Liberation’s Language
Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its “sordid history” in the U.S. context.
Shockwaves in the Global Order
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.
Is the State Here to Stay?
States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Impenetrable
in 1989 you walk the main road to /
Tiananmen when the inexplicable /
hits
Can Divestment Campaigns Still Work?
Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.
A Moral Evil
The Pope’s call for gay blessings is not what it seems.
Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy
On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.
The Right Comes for Milwaukee
Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?
The Silencing of Fred Dube
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
Esprit de l’escalier
Why didn’t I just say / people like us here / at this table / should not just talk about politics
What Happened to Liberalism?
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Saving Bidenomics
Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?
False Messiahs
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
Three Poems
Relying a little less on the odd language we’d been left inside /
we turned back to feeling: — / more moan, more mumble.
The Future of Speech on Campus
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
The War on Hospitals
Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.
Salvation Now
Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.
James Baldwin’s Day of Mourning
A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.
Unlucky
Drowning is something that happens to others, not to them.
A Different Freedom
There Can Be No Critique
Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.
Why I Read Boston Review
A message from Robin D. G. Kelley
Instruments of Dehumanization
How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.
Seeing Genocide
Israel’s weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.
