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Articles by Charles Clavey
From the Editors: The Politics of Care
Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our individual and social lives. As we write, it has killed at least 160,000 Americans and more than 700,000 people globally. Apocalyptic in the original meaning of the term—a disclosure or revelation—the pandemic has exposed the political and economic arrangements that enabled its terrible human devastation.
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The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote
Image: Wikimedia The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end. Last month Donald Trump ended the presidential debate falsely alleging that mail-in voting is subject to mass voter fraud and refusing to commit to accepting the results of the election should he lose. A week later Mike Pence repeated the falsehood.
Donald Trump, Our Prophet of Deceit
The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it. A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and his enablers, from Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum’s A Lot of People Are Saying (2019) to Jennifer Mercieca’s Demagogue for President (2020). But it may be equally constructive to examine the older works of social science and theory upon which these new studies, at least implicitly, rest.
Donald Trump, Our Prophet of Deceit
A number of recent books have put the methods of the social sciences in the service of understanding Trump, his movement, and his enablers, from Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum’s A Lot of People Are Saying (2019) to Jennifer Mercieca’s Demagogue for President (2020). But it may be equally constructive to examine the older works of social science and theory upon which these new studies, at least implicitly, rest.
Are You Out of Your Mind?
OCTOBER 5, 2015 DO YOU THINK you have what it takes to make it through this entire review? Though it’s not long, it will require patience. And though it will be interesting, it will require concentration. It deals with important topics — technology, craftsmanship, philosophy, psychology — and big questions — What does it mean to belong to a community? How do we become individuals? What does it mean to be human? — that excite the imagination and captivate the intellect. At least, that’s what I think.
Monarchy of Fear
Watch Martha C. Nussbaum discuss her latest book and where to go next in our moment of political crisis. “The 2016 election news kept coming in. . . . I was aware that my fear was not balanced or fair-minded, so I was part of the problem I was worrying about.” On the evening of September 4, Martha C. Nussbaum spoke to a crowded lecture hall at the Cambridge Public Library about her newest book, The Monarchy of Fear. The event was cosponsored by Boston Review and Harvard Book Store.
Jews in Britain Are Not Facing an Existential Threat
Graffiti of Jeremy Corbyn, head of the UK’s Labour Party. Photo: duncan c / Flickr But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism. On the streets of British cities, we are told, anti-Semitic attacks are reaching “record” highs.
Finding Your Way Home
Sep 14, 2015 21 Min read time Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor's Retrieving Realism. Photo: John Kannenberg Retrieving Realism Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor In a hut in southern Germany and an apartment in New York City, about ninety years ago, two philosophers tried to sort out a family of ancient problems concerning experience, knowledge, and our place in the world. Working independently, they developed a similar idea and used it as a launching pad for more.
Sex Is Serious
When it comes to consent, feminists and Christians agree. martin It is a strange season when culture warriors and women’s studies departments find common cause, though not unheard of—think pornography. But while Gail Dines’s Pornland (2010) won acclaim from The Christian Post, conservative Christian sex ethics and feminist sex ethics maintain disparate opinions of sex itself.
Sex Is Serious
When it comes to consent, feminists and Christians agree. martin It is a strange season when culture warriors and women’s studies departments find common cause, though not unheard of—think pornography. But while Gail Dines’s Pornland (2010) won acclaim from The Christian Post, conservative Christian sex ethics and feminist sex ethics maintain disparate opinions of sex itself.
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