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- Brian Eno: AI's Walking Dog https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/ais-walking-dog/ 2 comments
- Hilary Mantel, Historian https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/hilary-mantel-historian/ 9 comments
- Budgetary Hemlock http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/todd_edwin_jones_nevada_philosophy.php 5 comments
- Culture still doesn’t explain poverty http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/steinberg.php 42 comments
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump. The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-donald-j-trump/ 16 comments politics
- Bad Information [essay on roots of QAnon and other conspiracy theories: they stem from sense of powerlessness in the face of catastrophe, not stupidity and ignorance] https://www.bostonreview.net/politics/nicolas-guilhot-bad-information 27 comments politics
- Is Snow White? And other questions about appearance and reality. http://www.bostonreview.net/alex-byrne-is-snow-white-other-questions-about-appearance-and-reality#.vjjqc2jrxwy.reddit 33 comments philosophy
- Against Empathy - New Article by Paul Bloom http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-against-empathy 103 comments philosophy
- A short history of debt and default in the U.S. — "Running up debt is as American as the founding fathers. So is fleeing from it." http://www.bostonreview.net/us-made-america/claude-s-fischer-virtuous-debt 4 comments history
- Books & Ideas: Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/scheuerman-snowden-greenwald-harding-sagar 6 comments philosophy
- T.M. Scanlon: 'Libertarianism and Liberty' - a criticism of libertarianism that takes the notion of personal liberty seriously, arguing that it does not underwrite libertarianism, contra theorists like Nozick. [Boston Review] https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/libertarianism-and-liberty 210 comments philosophy
- Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral? http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/paula-ml-moya-does-reading-literature-make-you-more-moral 6 comments books
- What Killed Egyptian Democracy? http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/mohammad-fadel-what-killed-egyptian-democracy 16 comments worldevents
- From Democrats to Terrorists: How Egypt’s Revolution veered toward Authoritarian Crackdown http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/mohammad-fadel-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group-egypt 4 comments worldevents
- The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers - Should they say no to fighting in an unjust war? http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/jeff-mcmahan-moral-wounds 960 comments philosophy
- Is it possible to be a “moral saint” without being a hypocrite? http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.2/larissa_macfarquhar_new_yorker_moral_saints_ethics.php 33 comments philosophy
- If current trends continue, by 2014, Obama will have presided over more than 2 million deportations in total—a greater number than in all of American history prior to 1997. http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.2/tanya_golash-boza_undocumented_illegal_immigrants_ice_deportations.php 4 comments politics
- Antimonopolists were utopian capitalists who had once believed that ideally capitalism and fair competition would yield a society akin to Lincoln’s. They were bent on reforming capitalism so that great wealth and poverty would once again become anomalies in American life. http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.1/richard_white_gilded_age_wealth_inequality.php 18 comments history
- The free Internet will rise or fall on the involvement and ingenuity of the people, not on courts or lawmakers. http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.1/edward_lee_sopa_internet_freedom_wikipedia_blackout.php 6 comments technology
- More than 2,400 black voters in Florida were erroneously purged in Florida before the 2000 election, dwarfing George W. Bush’s 537-vote margin of victory. http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.1/pamela_s_karlan_voting_rights_prisoners_convicted_felons.php 216 comments politics
- "2016: Obama's America" is most remarkable for Dinesh D'Souza's exaggerated sense of self-importance http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.6/alan_stone_dinesh_dsouza_2016_barack_obamas_america.php 3 comments politics
- John Rawls is often regarded as a defender of New Deal liberalism. But his theory of justice required far more radical change. http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.6/martin_oneill_thad_williamson_rawls_property_owning_democracy_american_politics.php 29 comments philosophy
- Death by teleportation? http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.1/alex_byrne_philosophy_personal_identity_afterlife.php 14 comments philosophy
- Philip Gourevitch: “Memories can hold you back, they can be a terrible burden, even an illness. Yes, memory—hallowed memory—can be a kind of disease.” http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.5/philip_gourevitch_narrative_human_rights_rwanda_syria.php 9 comments philosophy
- Obama will likely end his term with more vacancies on the federal bench than when he started. The long-term consequences could be severe. http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.5/pamela_s_karlan_federal_courts_vacancies_obama.php 58 comments law
- One of the most important legacies a president leaves behind is the federal judges who continue to shape the law for decades. Obama will likely become the first president since Reagan to finish his first term with more vacancies than he inherited. http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.5/pamela_s_karlan_federal_courts_vacancies_obama.php 4 comments politics
- Michael J. Sandel: When Markets Crowd Out Morals http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.3/ndf_michael_j_sandel_markets_morals.php 21 comments philosophy
- Purifying Kashmir - Saudi Arabia Exports Salafism to the War-Torn Region http://www.bostonreview.net/br37.3/tariq_mir_kashmir_salafism.php 43 comments india
- If the United States awarded medals for voter suppression, South Carolina would compete for the gold. http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.1/jonathan_brater_voting_rights_laws_south_carolina.php 5 comments politics
- Regime Change Doesn’t Work: A Boston Review symposium http://www.bostonreview.net/br36.5/ndf_regime_change_doesnt_work.php 3 comments worldevents
- Paul Krugman called Social Security a Ponzi scheme back in the 90s. Why so much hostility about Republicans calling it that now? http://www.bostonreview.net/br21.6/krugmann.html 27 comments politics
- How is it that Hungary, Central Europe’s democratic wunderkind of 1989, could find itself the European Union’s problem child two decades later? http://www.bostonreview.net/br36.4/paul_hockenos_hungary_europe_right_wing_extremism.php 5 comments worldevents
- One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. http://www.bostonreview.net/br36.4/john_r_bowen_european_multiculturalism_islam.php 24 comments worldevents
- If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge. So what is the constitutional problem with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/pamela_s_karlan_obamacare.php 9 comments law
- Surveillance robots coming home to our local police departments. Do we need to develop counter measures? http://www.bostonreview.net/br36.1/nevins.php 3 comments politics
- On May 11, 1831, a diminutive 25-year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, stepped onto a New York City wharf and began his fateful encounter with America. http://www.bostonreview.net/br35.6/kennedy.php 5 comments history
- Think Guantanimo and Abu Ghraib are bad? Look at how our mentally ill and criminal inmates are treated in Supermax prisons. Thank the drug war, thank the media, and thank the politicians for this "tough on crime" stance. http://www.bostonreview.net/br35.6/tapley.php 31 comments politics
- Can Technology End Poverty? http://www.bostonreview.net/br35.6/toyama.php 3 comments technology
- Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child (Boston Review) http://www.bostonreview.net/br33.6/stallman.php 382 comments programming
- Why are so many Americans in prison? Because we've become more punitive over time. http://www.bostonreview.net/br32.4/article_loury.php 28 comments politics