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- I reject this supposed death of book reviewing. There's a rich variety of outlets still reviewing books that we should take care to support. But also let's all subscribe to the @bostonreview.bsky.social so that they can maybe (?) start a Book Reviews department which would be 🔥
- We do take pride in being a home for serious book reviewing—every subscriber helps us do more! You can browse our reviews of nonfiction here:
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- On this point, see also the response by @gelliottmorris.com: “The conventional approach—diagnosing preferences at present & adopting corresponding positions—treats public opinion as too static, even over the short term. Issues undergo redefinition. Events transform how voters interpret policy.”
- this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
- This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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View full threadIt amazes me how hard it is for Democrats to figure this out. Why, it is almost as if their big donors would rather keep them in the minority than actually win and enact change.
- On this point, see the responses by Cori Bush and Henry Burke:
- “The question is not whether we will be extremists,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from jail in Birmingham, “but what kind of extremists we will be.” @lilygeismer.bsky.social on the history of calls for moderation in our forum with @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social:
- Our next issue, BRUTE FORCE AND PLUNDER, drops soon. With @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, Vivian Gornick, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social @joshuacraze.bsky.social @liv-veazey.bsky.social Robin D. G. Kelley, Aslı Ü. Bâli & Aziz Rana, Gerald Epstein, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social +
- Plus photos by Salih Basheer; fiction by Emmett Rensin; @blbalthaser.bsky.social on Mark Mazower’s “On Antisemitism”; and Marie Gottschalk on the deportation-industrial complex & books by @briannanofil.bsky.social, @jesspish.bsky.social, @michellesphelps.bsky.social, @equalityalec.bsky.social
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- See also our piece a few months ago by contributing editor Lily Hu: “In claiming the mantle of science, the data-centered approach to politics has drawn ever tighter boundaries around what it takes to speak knowledgeably about politics and so in turn who can be entrusted to direct it.”
- “Popularist talk about constraints has become a paralyzing cliché, concealing, condoning, and perpetuating serious failures of leadership.” @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in our latest forum:
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- “Playing defense forfeits the moral clarity and collective purpose that have sustained successful anti-authoritarian movements worldwide.” In the lead essay:
