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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 3h

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized."
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Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 5h

*taps sign*
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 2d

“Three policemen, falling upon one unarmed student, were beating him with their riot sticks. Nobody was stopping them. The sound was clear and terrible... It was a moment of light, in which the true nature of the police was being revealed to him.”

From Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland:

The Novel and the Secret Police - Boston Review

In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 1d

I never have the expectation that all Black people will line up together. My view is built around meaningful political solidarity, not just identity-based solidarity.” -- Cathy J. Cohen

Building a Political Home | @bostonreview.bsky.social with Brandon Terry
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Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 1d

“The perversity at the centre of American liberalism is the fact that American liberalism’s towering achievement, the end of Jim Crow, is precisely what Israel violates.”

The Outcasts of Zion
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The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review

The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1d

As part of our ongoing efforts to broaden Boston Review’s reach during our 50th anniversary, we are working to expand our presence across libraries.

If you love our writing and want to see us on more shelves, please share this form with your library!

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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

terrific essay from David

"In other words, the university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself."

David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 2d

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 2d

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 2d

“Three policemen, falling upon one unarmed student, were beating him with their riot sticks. Nobody was stopping them. The sound was clear and terrible... It was a moment of light, in which the true nature of the police was being revealed to him.”

From Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland:

The Novel and the Secret Police - Boston Review

In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.

www.bostonreview.net

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Brian @overungerdunn.bsky.social · 3d

"...what is condemned as “violence” is not what kills or inflicts harm. It is what threatens oligarchic control or challenges national mythologies upon which established order depends."

Excellent article.
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What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

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Jason Burke Murphy @murfmensch.bsky.social · 2d

Boston Review is so good. They have re-posted Elaine Scarry's essay on Plato and Poetry and it is... so good.

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Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 2d

Just read this which was a nice grounding for today's work.

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

www.bostonreview.net

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 3d

“With this attempt at a longed-for ‘post-post-postmodern sacralization,’ he has taken apocalypse to its logical conclusion, flooding the narrative with comic megalomania, petty vitriol, horrific crimes and frogs, setting it off with a match and blowing it all sky high.”

Holly Case on Krasznahorkai:

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies - Boston Review

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

Elaine Scarry’s little book On Beauty and Being Just remains very precious to me—and all the more so as fascism rises. www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

www.bostonreview.net

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Cosmonautilus5 @cosmonautilus5.bsky.social · 3d

This is probably the best thing I've read all year. This is the kind of article I want to discuss with friends over beers at the bar, or on a cool evening around a campfire.

Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 3d

looked at this article on stream today - highly recommended if you're trying to make sense of why so much of the discussion on political violence taking place right now feels . . . off.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 3d

looked at this article on stream today - highly recommended if you're trying to make sense of why so much of the discussion on political violence taking place right now feels . . . off.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 3d

“With this attempt at a longed-for ‘post-post-postmodern sacralization,’ he has taken apocalypse to its logical conclusion, flooding the narrative with comic megalomania, petty vitriol, horrific crimes and frogs, setting it off with a match and blowing it all sky high.”

Holly Case on Krasznahorkai:

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies - Boston Review

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

www.bostonreview.net

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3d

You should totally read this Joseph Margulies piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social on the moral harms that arguments about legality can obscure: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 4d

“Philosophy and poetry are distinct inventions. But each suffers by keeping the other at arm’s length. The fates of philosophical and poetic understanding are intertwined. They have a single history.”

Elaine Scarry on Plato and the poets:

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 4d

“We have to be building political homes while also doing the door-knocking and organizing that builds power and changes lives. The duality of that work can be hard to hold.”

An interview with activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

www.bostonreview.net

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 5d

”What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?”

Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat, from February 2025:

The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

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Matthieu Dugal @matthieudugal.bsky.social · 5d

Un texte de 2018 sur Philip K. Dick, assez prémonitoire de #Sora. «The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides [...] inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.»

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

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