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.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of
Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the
Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and
Voice Literary Supplement.
Aziz Rana is professor of law and government at Boston College. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and the forthcoming 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 fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.
Vivian Gornick’s most recent book is Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
