In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

Allen sought clarification. “That means that you will have to shoot half Spain?” To which Franco replied, “I repeat, at whatever cost.” ...

In June 1982, as employment in the U.S. auto industry continued to plummet, two white autoworkers, one of them recently laid off, started harassing a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin in a ...

Amy King is author of I Want to Make You Safe and co-editor of the PEN Poetry Series. Andrew Ridker, Cathy Park Hong, Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, Harmony Holiday, ...

This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. Over the last year and a half, American universities have rapidly destroyed the right to protest on campus. At the request of ...

In January, in an interview with CBS, Vice President J. D. Vance questioned the U.S. bishops of the Catholic Church about their use of federal funds to resettle migrants. “Are they worried about ...

As most of the federal government has declined to “check” the Trump administration over the past three months, a new imbalance has been established—one ...

This note introduces our Spring 2025 issue. Read the Table of Contents here. Subscribe to get a copy. This issue is the first of Boston Review’s fiftieth anniversary year. You’ll find a forum on the ...

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This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...