“For me all that took place in Vietnam was inseparable from Hiroshima,” wrote the American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his 2011 memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century. He was referring to the ...

Dear President Nemat Minouche Shafik, As a former Columbia University faculty member and father of a Columbia graduate (PhD ’21), I am quite frankly appalled by your draconian, unethical, illegal, and ...

laughing at how strong he still is. When the darkness is almost complete, he sits up & recites his last poem. When I lived, it begins, in Shuj’aiyya, in Gaza, when I took the train to Jerusalem & back ...

Yesterday students at Harvard University set up an encampment in Harvard Yard, protesting the university’s suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee earlier this week and ...

Beauty is a hand reaching back towards the soft part of the skull.

On April 18 the new president of Columbia University and the previous director of London School of Economics, Minouche Shafik, called the New York Police Department to have Columbia students arrested ...

Suzanne Gardinier is the author of several poetry collections. Gardinier’s poetry has been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1989) and Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets ...

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Ari Ne’eman co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006 and served as its executive director from 2006 to 2016. From 2010 to 2015, he served as one of President Obama’s appointees to the ...

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

Shirley Lin is Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she teaches critical race theory, work law, and contracts. A former community organizer, she is currently working on a book, Law ...

That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review.Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. That’s why there ...