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In Boston Review’s new issue Brute Force and Plunder, Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana trace the path to the Trump doctrine through U.S. coercion in the Middle East, Gerald Epstein examines the crypto coalition’s plan, and Vivian Gornick revisits a childhood memoir from Nazi Germany.
Also in this issue:
On ICE: Robin D. G. Kelley puts terror tactics in context, Liv Veazey covers the Canal Street raids, and Joshua Craze reports from immigration court
Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach unpack Democrats’ timidity in the face of authoritarianism
Photographer Salih Basheer documents loss and displacement in Sudan
Benjamin Balthaser reviews historian Mark Mazower’s On Antisemitism
Plus columns by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and David Austin Walsh; fiction from Emmett Rensin; and a special 50th anniversary archive feature with introductions from George Scialabba, Jeet Heer, Junot Díaz, Jessie Kindig, Daniel Denvir, Pankaj Mishra, and Katrina vanden Heuvel.
“Boston Review is unique and simply indispensable in its dignified refusal to phrase essential critiques in vague or sentimental pieties.”
—Pankaj Mishra, essayist and novelist on A. Dirk Moses’s essay “More than Genocide”
“Like the best Boston Review essays, Hogeland’s counternarrative is work of brisk, common-sense radicalism. It presciently outlined the contours of the new elite ideology of militaristic plutocracy that disguised itself as a national origin story of democratic meritocracy.”
—Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation on William Hogeland’s essay “Inventing Alexander Hamilton”
“We need essays like this, and magazines like Boston Review, to see through the self-serving narratives of the powerful and expose the injustice that so many insist on obscuring.”
—Daniel Denvir, writer and host of The Dig on Harsha Walia’s essay “There Is No ‘Migrant Crisis’”
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 Radical Imagination.
Aziz Rana is Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. His latest book is The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a columnist at Boston Review. His books include Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.
Vivian Gornick is author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.