CAMP DAVID, MD (AP)—Speaking to reporters on Saturday, President Mary Beth Cadwallader pledged to sign a landmark anti-reanimation bill into law on Tuesday after the House and Senate passed it last ...

What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

One of the most commonly encountered claims about international politics today concerns the transition from a “Westphalian” to a “post-Westphalian” era. Writers across a wide range of media and ...

This is a response to Donna Murch’s review of Michael Javen Fortner’s book Black Silent Majority. My book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment has generated ...

“The personal is political” was a reality for me long before it became the mantra of Second Wave feminism in the United States. In 1951, when I was ten years old, my father, Samuel Wallach, a New York ...

Sometime late in the 1960s, in the countryside of Vermont, my sister and I saw in the evening sky three round lights, apparently far-off, perfectly still and unchanging, each the size of a thumbnail ...

Gay critic Leo Bersani, who died in February, was known for his sharp opening sentences. In a career spanning eighteen books and numerous essays, the Berkeley professor, who passed away in February at ...

Jack Berger is a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His many books include Freedom Dreams: The Black ...

Rosie Gillies is director of audience and development at Floodlight. She was formerly engagement editor, and later digital director, at Boston Review.

Yael Tamir, author of Liberal Nationalism, is a former member of the Knesset and was Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1989-1999.

This essay has been adapted into a book, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else), published by Haymarket. In an April 2020 op-ed for the Washington Post, ...