Law Politics

9/11’s Unlearned Lessons

The anti-terrorism cases that garnered little outrage should have concerned us all.

Jeanne Theoharis

The Latest

Law

Sadistic, Blatant, and Wanton

Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.

Baher Azmy

Politics

Which Way, Democratic Party?

A conversation on the primaries, the establishment’s “moderation” obsession, and why the party needs social movements more than spreadsheets and scammy fundraising.

Adam Bonica
Jake Grumbach
Osita Nwanevu

Law Politics

The Stranglehold of Memory

A conversation with Omer Bartov on the fate of Zionism, the “non-debate” about the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and impunity for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Omer Bartov
Arnon Grunberg

Politics

How to Blow Up a Family

History and identity collide in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Paul Hockenos

Philosophy Politics Science

How to Save Science

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

Zeynep Pamuk

with responses from

Jeremy Berg
Alondra Nelson & Jenny Reardon
Madeleine Baker
C. Brandon Ogbunu
Natalie B. Aviles
Samuel R. Bagenstos
Heather Douglas
Robert Cook-Deegan & Arthur Daemmrich
James Owen Weatherall

Politics

The AI Data Center Backlash

A conversation on the groundswell of local organizing and the movement’s political shockwaves.

Robinson Meyer
Nicholas Rabb
Astra Taylor
Lily Hu

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Featuring Zeynep Pamuk on saving science, Michael Harris on math in the age of AI, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Omer Bartov on memory politics, Lorna Finlayson on critical theory after Habermas, Mark Bould on China Miéville’s The Rouse, and more.

Wednesday, September 16 • 6:15 p.m.

Event: End Times Fascism

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on their new book, moderated by Aziz Rana

Coolidge Corner Theatre • Brookline, MA

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Philosophy Politics Science

How to Save Science

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

Zeynep Pamuk

with responses from

Jeremy Berg
Alondra Nelson & Jenny Reardon
Madeleine Baker
C. Brandon Ogbunu
Natalie B. Aviles
Samuel R. Bagenstos
Heather Douglas
Robert Cook-Deegan & Arthur Daemmrich
James Owen Weatherall

Politics

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

Adam Bonica
Jake Grumbach

with responses from

Cori Bush
Amanda Litman
Matthew Yglesias
G. Elliott Morris
Julia Serano
Eric Rauchway
Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown
Thomas Ferguson
Timothy Shenk
Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer
Jenifer Fernandez Ancona
Lily Geismer
Danielle Wiggins
William A. Galston
Henry Burke

Politics

The Real Border Crisis

The problem isn’t immigration. It’s the failure of liberal democracy itself.

Lea Ypi

with responses from

Paulina Ochoa Espejo
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dara Lind
Daniel Denvir
Chandran Kukathas
Ayelet Shachar

“We need a more democratic vision that makes science truly a public good and gives the public a stake in its realization.”

—Zeynep Pamuk, “How to Save Science”

“If a Jew in New York suffers from paranoia, he goes to his therapist. A Jew in Israel joins the army. That is the problem.”

—Omer Bartov, “The Stranglehold of Memory”

“Too young to enlist in the Ukrainian army, the teenager vowed to fight the Russians in his own way.”

—Paul Hockenos, “How to Blow Up a Family”

“The anti–data center movement is really messy and kind of incoherent and attracts some cranks, but there’s huge potential for people to organize around it in this moment.”

—Astra Taylor, “The AI Data Center Backlash”

“Few have written as bracingly of the barbarity that is American foreign policy. But it’s Dwight’s method that should command our attention now.”

—Daniel Wortel-London, “Think Again”

“The Rouse is painstakingly realistic yet haunted by presences somewhere between gods and mollusks. And it is delirium inducing.”

—Mark Bould, “Revenance Event”

“Far from preventing a slide into the moral abyss, ‘guiding principles’ often prove to be infinitely flexible in their application.”

—Lorna Finlayson, “Normativity from the Standpoint of Its Victims”

The World After September 11

Politics

9/11 Forever

The legacy of September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

Joseph Margulies

Law

Guantánamo Is Everywhere

Twenty years later, the lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Baher Azmy

Law Politics

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

Elaine Scarry

ICE’s reign of Terror

Politics Race

Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Deborah Chasman

Politics

How Not to Abolish ICE

What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?

Harsha Walia

From the Archive

Philosophy Science

Knowledge Collapse

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

Michael Harris

The War on Iran

Politics

Object Lessons

The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.

Aslı Ü. Bâli

Politics

The War on Iran: A Conversation

A roundtable on U.S. and Israeli aggression, reactions from Iran and the Iranian diaspora, and the future of Iranian struggles for freedom and democracy.