His memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, was attended not just by Trump and other high-ranking officials in his administration but also by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, Daily Wire podcaster Matt ...

Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany in the mid-1930s—goes beyond what any fact checking could resolve.

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. It appears in print in our Fall 2025 issue; subscribe to get a copy. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series ...

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon. Harris has her own views about a range of foreign policy issues—including ...

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

A regular reader of Boston Review (which he called “a jewel”), John Rawls was among the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. On last year’s centenary, Rawls student and BR ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

Terry Bouricius remembers the moment he converted to democracy by lottery. A bookish Vermonter, now sixty-eight, he was elected to the State House in 1990 after working for years as a public official ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...

Routinely, McDowell County, West Virginia, has been depicted as ground zero for “Trump Country.” One year ago, for instance, the Huffington Post used gritty black-and-white photographs of McDowell ...