Boston Review

Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

This past February, I noticed that one of the cameras at my parents’ apartment had gone dark. I scanned through the footage: backward quickly, until I saw my father shuffling about, like a stop-motion marionette, then forward slowly, as he approached the camera, reached out a hand, and flipped it down. The cameras were just one of many technological interventions I had introduced into the caretaking plan for my father. And though he sometimes protested, this was the first dramatic register of his unhappiness.

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