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Boston Review@bostonreview· 11d

— James Chappel on Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America @fsgbooks.bsky.social — Daniel Wortel-London on a new collection of Dwight Macdonald’s essays, Atrocities of the Mind @uchicagopress.bsky.social To get it, subscribe by Aug 10 for 20% off w/ code SUMMER2026. www.bostonreview.net/memberships/

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jun 29

TODAY at noon Eastern! Join Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, & @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social for a panel moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh about their recent essays about America at 250. Cohosted with @dissentmag.bsky.social. Donations suggested; register here: tinyurl.com/44yrhzbt

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jun 24

NEXT MONDAY! Join us for America at 250: an online event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, & David Waldstreicher, moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh. Panelists will discuss their recent essays in BR and @dissentmag.bsky.social on the legacies of the American Revolution. Register at tinyurl.com/44yrhzbt

Boston Review@bostonreview· May 22

This weekend, get any of our back issues for 40% off, plus free shipping on all U.S. orders. Just code SPRINGCLEANING at checkout. bostonreview.net/shop

Boston Review@bostonreview· May 4

TOMORROW at 3pm Eastern! Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, & Violence with @kevinbaker.bsky.social @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social @beenwrekt.bsky.social, moderated by contributing editor Lily Hu. Learn more and register here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Artificial Reason: a conversation on AI, rationality, and violence with Kevin T. Baker, Sophia Goodfriend, and Benjamin Recht.

In this Zoom event, Boston Review contributing editor Lily Hu moderates a conversation with three prominent writers about the way AI is changing the way societies, individuals, and governments make decisions. The panelists will discuss the nature and meaning of rationality, how new technology is interfacing with old institutions, what popular AI discourses get wrong, and the consequences for politics, war, and social life in general.

Tuesday, May 5 at 3pm ET. Donation suggested; registration required.

Learn more and register at https://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/artificial-reason-a-conversation-on-ai-rationality-and-violence

Boston Review@bostonreview· Apr 29

— @bakaari.bsky.social on Somaliland’s empty triumph — reviews of YOUR NAME HERE by Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff; THE MASTERMIND by Kelly Reichardt; and recent books on disability and the good life Subscribe by May 5 for 20% off with code FOREVERWARS. www.bostonreview.net/memberships/

Boston Review@bostonreview· Apr 24

Join us for Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence on May 5 at 3pm ET. Contributing editor Lily Hu will talk with @kevinbaker.bsky.social @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social @beenwrekt.bsky.social Learn more and register here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Apr 17

Join us for Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence on Tuesday, May 5 at 3pm ET. Contributing editor Lily Hu will talk with Kevin T. Baker, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, & @beenwrekt.bsky.social. To learn more and register, go here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Join us for Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence on Tuesday, May 5 at 3pm ET.

BR contributing editor Lily Hu will talk with Kevin T. Baker, Sophia Goodfriend, and Benjamin Recht about the way AI is changing the way societies, individuals, and governments make decisions. The panelists will discuss the nature and meaning of rationality, how new technology is interfacing with old institutions, what popular AI discourses get wrong, and the consequences for politics, war, and social life in general.

Register at https://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/artificial-reason-a-conversation-on-ai-rationality-and-violence

Boston Review@bostonreview· Mar 31

Join us for an online event on Monday, April 6, 3pm-4pm Eastern, for a conversation about the war on Iran. Featuring @peymanjafari.bsky.social, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, and @naghmehs.bsky.social, moderated by @alexshams.bsky.social. Register here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Mar 5

“Schmitt saw with prescient clarity that air war would not only create an ‘intensification of the technical means of destruction‘ but also intensify the problem of unequal sides… a world in which those who command the sky could police & punish those who do not.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/hus...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s remarks at a March 4 press conference: “Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful Air Forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders, flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over.

And Iran will be able to do nothing about it. B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, Predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly.”

Boston Review@bostonreview· Dec 5

Congratulations to contributors @joelleabirached.bsky.social and @samklug.bsky.social, whose 2024 essays “The View from Besieged Beirut” & “Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?” are recognized as notable essays in the Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.

Boston Review@bostonreview· Nov 30

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Boston Review@bostonreview· Oct 28

To get the issue straight from the printer, subscribe at any level here: www.bostonreview.net/memberships/ And before Tuesday November 4, use code BORDER20 for 20% off.

Boston Review@bostonreview· Oct 21

TOMORROW: Join us in Cambridge, MA for our 50th anniversary issue launch with Elaine Scarry, Quinn Slobodian, Brandon M. Terry, and Aziz Rana. Register now: www.harvard.com/event/boston...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Oct 8

TOMORROW: Join us in Chicago for the launch of our 50th anniversary issue with Cathy J. Cohen, Adom Getachew, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and Joshua Cohen. Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Oct 7

Join us in New York, Boston, and Chicago to celebrate Boston Review’s 50th anniversary and the launch of our special anniversary issue. Learn more and register for all of our events at bostonreview.net/events

Boston Review@bostonreview· Sep 4

You can get a copy of the issue in which this special section appears—our 50th anniversary issue—by subscribing here: www.bostonreview.net/memberships

Boston Review@bostonreview· Aug 1

Our 50th anniversary issue heads to the printer soon. Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social. To get it, subscribe now (link below):

Boston Review's 50th anniversary issue, featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jul 23

Offer ends tomorrow! Get a print subscription to both BR and @dissentmag.bsky.social for just $60, or become a digital subscriber for just $35. Simply add a BR membership to your cart and use code DISSENT60 to save on print or DISSENT35 for digital: www.bostonreview.net/memberships/

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jul 16

🚨 Apply for our PAID fall internship! 🚨 Fall interns (September to December) work full time in our offices in Cambridge, MA and are immersed in the day to day work of the magazine. Come join our small team. Applications are due August 1. Submit here: www.bostonreview.net/about/jobs-a...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jul 7

🚨 Apply for our PAID fall internship! 🚨 Fall interns (September to December) work full time in our offices in Cambridge, MA and are immersed in the day to day work of the magazine. Come join our small team. Applications are due July 15. Submit here: www.bostonreview.net/about/jobs-a...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jul 5

We're teaming up with @dissentmag.bsky.social again this summer! Get a print subscription to both magazines for just $60, or digital for $35. Just add a BR membership to your cart and use code DISSENT60 to save on print or DISSENT35 for digital. bostonreview.net/memberships

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Boston Review@bostonreview· Jun 18

🚨 Apply for our PAID fall internship! 🚨 Interns work full time in our offices in Cambridge, MA and are immersed in the day to day work of the magazine. Come join our small team. Applications are due July 15. Submit here: www.bostonreview.net/about/jobs-a...

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jun 13

We just rolled out a new website for our 50th anniversary! We hope you’ll check it out today and browse around to explore the new look and features—all designed to showcase the bold writing and thinking we’ve published for five decades. www.bostonreview.net

Boston Review@bostonreview· Jun 9

This Thursday: Join our free virtual event with Lisa L. Miller, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social, Alex Gourevitch and moderated by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social‬ discussing our Spring 2025 issue. Register now: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Boston Review@bostonreview· May 27

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Boston Review@bostonreview· May 1

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Boston Review@bostonreview· May 1

Our next issue is coming soon. Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social bostonreview.net/memberships

Boston Review@bostonreview· Apr 18

A global phenomenon: leaders of the Latin American right describe the project as a “batalla cultural.” But where Gramsci aimed at the capitalist class, their culture war targets progressives and leftists—progres and zurdos, Milei’s favorite epithets. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...