Boston Review

Kill It with Fire - Boston Review In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.

Fifty years after his death, Francisco Franco is being rehabilitated in Spain.

Writing from Extremadura in our spring issue, Troy Nahumko surveys the social and political battles still being waged over the dictatorship, with jarring parallels to Trump’s own war on historical memory:

Kill It with Fire - Boston Review In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.

Fifty years after his death, Francisco Franco is being rehabilitated in Spain.

Writing from Extremadura in our spring issue, Troy Nahumko surveys the social and political battles still being waged over the dictatorship, with jarring parallels to Trump’s own war on historical memory:

Why We Don’t Act - Boston Review Why do we fail to predict—and even more importantly, prevent—social and political crises?

I also wrote a piece for the @bostonreview.bsky.social special issue on responsibility and scientific humility, in December 2021: www.bostonreview.net/forum/prepar...

The Care Factory - Boston Review In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

A useful essay. It strikes me again while reading this that it's through critical analysis of the care economy that the stakes of a Marxist labor theory of value versus a Marxian critique of the labor theory of value should come most starkly into view.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.

The land Camp East Montana sits on has its own sordid histories of occupation, dispossession, and militarization—all of which have made the site into prime real estate for the nation’s latest exercise in industrial-scale detention for profit.

Honora Spicer on Texas’s new ICE facility:

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

On the destruction not only of public schools in Gaza, but all of the public sector: With only private companies entering, "the markets are full of things that are not really necessary: ketchup, a thousand kinds of chocolate, fruit juices, even sodas." www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...

Seems worth revisiting this article and forum in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

The Care Factory - Boston Review In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

.@emilybaughan.bsky.social: What happens If enough daycare centers and community hospitals close, if workers cannot access the care that allows them to show up and generate profit for others, if the most fundamental mechanisms of social reproduction collapse? www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Highly recommend this essay that synthesizes the history of the wages for housework movement and grapples with the intensifying commodification of care work.

The Care Factory - Boston Review In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

Fascinating essay on care work, labor struggles, feminism, and the racialized history of care extraction from @emilybaughan.bsky.social

I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike

The Care Factory - Boston Review In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

“The wish that women’s care work be waged seems to have come true, albeit in funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work to care for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free.”

@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework’s legacy:

Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.

The land Camp East Montana sits on has its own sordid histories of occupation, dispossession, and militarization—all of which have made the site into prime real estate for the nation’s latest exercise in industrial-scale detention for profit.

Honora Spicer on Texas’s new ICE facility:

Cover of Boston Review issue

Excerpts from interview with Cathy J. Cohen

Excerpts from interview with Cathy J. Cohen

cannot recommend highly enough the recent issue of @bostonreview.bsky.social on “The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide.” Filled with wonderful and urgent work, but I’m particularly drawn to the interview with Cathy J. Cohen: page after page of clear-sighted wisdom.

Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.

It isn't black gold, Texas Tea, that's making fortunes in the El Paso desert. It's immigrants.

"The idea that Camp East Montana is in a place devoid of history serves those wishing to evade accountability for what they do there."

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...

Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.

“Naturally, the idea that Camp East Montana is in an abstract place devoid of context and history—is, in a sense, nowhere—has been of great service to those wishing to evade accountability for what they do there.”

Honora Spicer on Texas’s new ICE mega-detention center:

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

“Israel still plans to make Gaza unlivable in order to drive the Gazans out. But if the international community showed some commitment to ensuring that humanitarian aid & above all, construction materials can enter, we wld...regain Gaza’s main asset: education”

www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

“Israel only allows private sector traders to enter, not free humanitarian aid. As a result, the markets are full of things that are not really necessary: ketchup, a thousand kinds of chocolate, fruit juices, even sodas. But protein, chicken, meat, and eggs are scarce and sold at exorbitant prices.”

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

“I don’t know when this will be repaired, but the Palestinian people are trying, each time, to rise from the ashes like a phoenix.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...

The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

Sandeep Vaheesan's take was strong on "when is regulation actually the issue and when is capitalism"

Obama's Original Sin - Boston Review An insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberalism and betrayed campaign promises.

who's that guy in the photo for the article titled "Obama's Original Sin"

🗃️

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

“The new schools in Gaza are private, and their scarcity drives up prices. I had to pay 300 shekels in registration fees, plus 170 shekels per month—a huge amount of money in Gaza, which most people can’t afford. Parents borrow money where they can to pay tuition fees.”

A dispatch from Gaza:

What We Call Progress - Boston Review Can we still imagine change for the better? Critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi tries in her new book.

Putting forward a theory of progress is not only a way of settling a theoretical dispute; it’s also a move with real stakes. As confidence in collective life wanes, progress can seem not merely unlikely but unthinkable.

Maya Krishnan:

Fascism requires an enormous administrative state. That's the real significance of Project 2025 and the pivot it marked for the modern conservative movement. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

The new schools in Gaza are private, and their scarcity drives up prices. Gaza journalist Rami Abu Jamous takes his son to the first day of kindergarten: www.bostonreview.net/articles/fir...

First Day of School in South Rimal - Boston Review Classes have started for a lucky few, but Gaza’s public sector lies in ruins.

“From the outside, it may seem that life is returning to Gaza, but in fact, it is not life. It is only non-life that is beginning again. We cannot speak of life if the pillars of life—education, health, housing—are not in place.”

A dispatch from Gaza by journalist Rami Abu Jamous:

I can share my previous skeets on the likes of Greenwood in Tulsa or Central Avenue in Tampa but suffice to say it’s a depressingly common story how African-American neighborhoods born of segregation were finished off by “urban renewal.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/bre...

What We Call Progress - Boston Review Can we still imagine change for the better? Critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi tries in her new book.

Talk of progressive social change can sound like a fairy-tale or bedtime story: fictions we tell ourselves to feel better. What it would mean for progress to be something we could fight for?

Maya Krishnan on Rahel Jaeggi’s PROGRESS AND REGRESSION:

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? - Boston Review The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

“His victory against Andrew Cuomo, the former-governor-son-of-a-governor, shows how Democrats have finally arrived at their Tea Party moment: voters fed up with a hollowed-out Democratic Party registered their dissatisfaction, succeeding despite a torrent of propaganda from the establishment.”

Boston Review Boston Review is a magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, independent and nonprofit since 1975.

Please subscribe to the Boston Review.
www.bostonreview.net