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James Goodwin
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Let the record reflect that Trump claimed to disavow Project 2025 just four days after I dropped this. Can't be a coincidence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
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Astra Taylor
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For @bostonreview.bsky.social we lay out our vision of a Solidarity State. "A solidarity state offers a potential horizon that is both feasible and transformative—and also more resilient against elite capture and reactionary attacks than our current paradigm."
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“Richard Rorty’s patriotism may be a way of bringing all Americans together; but patriotism is very close to jingoism, and I’m afraid I don’t see in Rorty’s argument any proposal for coping with this very obvious danger.”
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We published a 3,000-word digestion of the 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” yesterday, here:
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Leon “Lee” Grayhare
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There’s a really fascinating Boston Review that explores the Black Radical writing about authoritarianism & the fascist tradition in the US
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The state can make us more prone to care for one another and collaborate—or more inclined to compete for seemingly scarce resources, more mistrustful and afraid.
@lhh.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social on on what a "solidarity state" could look like:
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James Goodwin
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Check out my latest: Project 2025 isn't a blueprint to "dismantle" the administrative state, as commonly understood. It's about building it up and weaponizing it for authoritarian/Christian nationalist ends. And *that's* what makes it terrifying. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
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Led by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025—banking on Trump’s reelection—seeks to reprogram the administrative state and undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social of @progressivereform.bsky.social takes us inside its detailed plan:
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Martin O'Neill
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Received my hard copy of the new @bostonreview.bsky.social issue “What Is the State For?”, w/ a central essay “Giant Steps” by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & a range of responses including @joecguinan.bsky.social & me on “No Substitute for State Power”.
Great to be part of such a vital conversation!
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Chevron deference, a longstanding pillar of governance in administrative agencies.
Georgetown legal scholar and former EPA staffer Lisa Heinzerling on the stakes of the Court’s assault on government:
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In the early morning on this day in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City, following surveillance by the Public Morals Squad.
The protests that erupted marked a turning point in the movement for gay liberation, Micki McElya recalls:
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“She was a great defier of unjust authority. She was out in the streets. She is a marvelous figure to invoke at this time.”
Emma Goldman was born on this day in 1869. In this interview during Occupy Wall Street, Vivian Gornick spoke about her legacy:
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“Far from preventing the state from functioning effectively, militias have proved essential to its continued existence.”
New from our latest issue, WHAT IS THE STATE FOR?, Joshua Craze explains how governments wracked by debt have outsourced violence:
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George Orwell was born on this day in 1903.
Peter Ross explains why, despite being pressed into service of a variety of causes, the real Orwell remains unknown:
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Two years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, denying the constitutional right to abortion.
Rachel Rebouché explains why Roe was never enough anyway:
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Kyle Tran Myhre
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The format here (a kind of opening statement + a bunch of thoughtful responses coming in from different angles) makes this a really fascinating, clarifying, and inspiring read.
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From the archive, Scott Saul writes on Ralph Ellison’s second, posthumously published novel JUNETEENTH—a collage of “democratic conundrums” and “clashing worlds,” with a “riddle for a more ethical country” at its core:
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“As summer heat intensifies, we face a grim annual ritual. Public health officials will warn that heat can kill and advise cities and citizens to take precautions—but despite these efforts heat will kill once again.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Glad to have gotten the opportunity to anchor a forum on the role of the state and climate politics in the 21st century for @bostonreview.bsky.social, with responses from @prisonculture.bsky.social, Tara Raghuveer, Thea Riofrancos, and others
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To read the whole forum in print—along with work by @astra.bsky.social, Joshua Craze, Leila Farsakh, and many others in our latest issue WHAT IS THE STATE FOR?—become a member here:
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In reply, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social sees the central fault line in this debate as a matter of the right “scale” for social and political transformation, emphasizing that the strategy we take must be “atmospherically relevant”:
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Finally, @triofrancos.bsky.social explains why organizing must take place in and outside the state, concluding that “if one foot takes a step into state power, the other must deal a blow to its current forms”:
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Claudio Lomnitz examines the view from what Clifford Geertz called “complicated places,” explaining what the transformation of the state in Mexico reveals about possibilities for purposeful collective action:
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@joecguinan.bsky.social and @martinoneill.bsky.social observe that “decarbonization ultimately requires a sustained and deliberate act of capital destruction on a scale about twice that of the end of slavery”—so there is simply no substitute for winning state power:
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@prisonculture.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social explain why our fossil-fuel worlds must also be abolitionist, since state coercion falls hardest on the least powerful—and “enforcement of international law and environmental regimes is no different”:
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Gianpaolo Baiocchi finds both inspiration and caution in the history of Latin American movements, which have made clear that “occupying the state is not enough” and “sterile ideological debate is often so much less important than strategic discussion”:
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Tara Raghuveer identifies real estate capital as a key accomplice of the fossil fuel industry, arguing that “our strategies to combat them are connected, maybe even more deeply than we have considered before”:
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In response, Ishac Diwan and Bright Simons examine the “cold calculus of climate burden sharing,” explaining why global governance can’t work—and why reinvigorated states are necessary to avoid the “dystopian” outcome of William Nordhaus’s “climate clubs”:
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Our latest forum, led by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is now live. Drawing on world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein’s analysis of a “two-step” strategy to state politics, Táíwò argues that the defeat of fossil fuel is the first step to social justice:
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“As summer heat intensifies, we face a grim annual ritual. Public health officials will warn that heat can kill and advise cities and citizens to take precautions—but despite these efforts heat will kill once again.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/hea...
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“For a long time I felt like Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus were realer to me than I was to myself.”
No better way to prepare for Bloomsday tomorrow than to read @johannawinant.bsky.social on the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses:
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The Port Huron Statement—written by activists in Students for a Democratic Society—was published on this day in 1962, marking a key moment in the history of the New Left. Tom Hayden, Kim Phillips-Fein, Eric Mann, Bill Ayers, Danielle Allen & others reflect on its legacy:
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“What matters is knowing when disagreement and criticism is likely to be useful—when it might move the struggle forward.”
An exchange between Jodi Dean and Ayça Çubukçu:
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Guyanese historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney was assassinated on this day in 1980.
Shozab Raza and Noaman G. Ali explore his radical legacy:
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“He yearns to be a socialist leader, a man of action, but what he loves is the Talmudic solitude of the written word.”
Michael Greenberg on Irving Howe, born this day in 1920:
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Listen to the Roland High Life
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"In theory, all neurodivergent people have rights. But how these rights are dispensed and interpreted tends to mirror the ideology of the neoliberal order; 'reasonable' tends to mean something like 'doesn’t interfere too much with money making.'" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...
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Greg Greene
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(Yes: it inflicts misery in service of other goals, like engineering the upward transfer of wealth. We should expect that. To quote a line I've cited often, "dystopia for some is utopia for others. …[W]e live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.") www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...
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Is partition the only path to self-determination? Leila Farsakh writes on the past and future of the Palestinian struggle for statehood:
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“How is it that dueling associations of economic elites came to hold such sway over civil rights?”
Joanna Wuest explains why corporate activism is an unreliable ally in the fight for queer liberation:
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Anna Kornbluh
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up with theory of the state!
"Should social movements work inside or outside the state? What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?"
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ChristofPierson
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One reason to replace representative democracy with sortition.
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For generations of American radicals, ending settler colonialism required a new constitution, not forced removal. New from Aziz Rana:
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More than 20 years after the term was coined, the neurodiversity movement sits at a crossroads.
Our latest forum, led by Robert Chapman with responses from @catherinetan.bsky.social, @profshirleylin.bsky.social, @drstevenkapp.bsky.social, Ari Ne'eman, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Kristin Bumiller
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White nationalists and neo-Nazis joined forces with Zionists to attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment. One neo-Nazi was heard shouting, “we’re here to finish what Hitler started,” without any apparent protest from the self-identified Zionists. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ucl...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
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This is the definitive piece on the state of affairs at UCLA. It excoriates the administration, police, and Block. By Robin D.G. Kelley. It ruined my day, mostly because all of it is true.
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Plus work by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social, Joshua Craze, Leila Farsakh, Janice Fine & Hana Shepherd, Bonnie Tenneriello, Jonathan S. Blake, Richard Pithouse, S'bu Zikode, and Peter E. Gordon.
Subscribe at the link above before Sunday, May 19 to get it as your first issue.
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Our new issue, WHAT IS THE STATE FOR?, asks whether the state can serve social justice.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social leads a forum w/ @triofrancos.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social
@dreanyc123.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social
@joecguinan.bsky.social + more
bostonreview.net/memberships/
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Naomi Fowler
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Great article from a few years ago. What would the author write now given renewed attempts at the UN to challenge global economic power? "after the triumph of neoliberalism over the New Int'l Economic Order it is difficult to imagine another world was possible" www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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