The Violence Prerogative
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Politics
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
The Trump administration has yet to announce a policy on Afghanistan. For that, at least,...
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
When Elon Musk called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” on Joe...
The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism
Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays,...
Small Wasn’t Beautiful
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after EmpireTehila SassonPrinceton University Press, $39.95...
The Reality of Settler Colonialism
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and JusticeAdam KirschW. W. Norton, $24.99 (cloth) I. The Pledge...
Letter to the Israeli Left
When Hamas-led gunmen massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, several fundamental conceptions, together with...
Letter to the Israeli Left
When Hamas-led gunmen massacred nearly 1,200 people on October 7, several fundamental conceptions, together with...
A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda
This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s...
The Rivierization of the World
I live in Beirut in an area called the Corniche that runs along the edge...