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The BR Podcast—the official podcast of Boston Review—brings you in-depth conversations with leading writers, scholars, and activists about the biggest issues of our time. About BR “Unique and simply indispensable.” —Pankaj Mishra Boston Review is a magazine of ideas, politics, and culture. Independent and nonprofit since 1975, animated by hope and committed to equality, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. Subscribe here: bostonreview.net/memberships

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America at 250: Founding Myths, Useable Pasts, and Just Futures 01.07.2026 1:20:13

In this special semiquincentennial event cohosted by Boston Review and Dissent , three distinguished scholars of history and politics—Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher—discuss their recent essays on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, reflecting on founding myths and unrealized ideals, revolutionary legacies and global contexts, and the ongoing conflicts over...

Artificial Reason: AI, Rationality, and Violence 01.06.2026 1:19:59

In this Boston Review roundtable discussion, moderated by BR contributing editor Lily Hu, three prominent writers and scholars—historian Kevin T. Baker, anthropologist Sophia Goodfriend, and computer scientist Benjamin Recht—discuss the way AI is changing the way societies, individuals, and governments make decisions. The panelists discuss the nature and meaning of rationality, how new technology...

Imperial Anxieties: The U.S.-Israeli War on Iran 06.05.2026 1:19:00

A decade ago, Donald Trump was clear. “Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake,” he declared at a Republican presidential debate. “George Bush made a mistake. . . . We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.” “I’m not going to start wars,” he reiterated on election night in 2024. This February, the United States and Israel started a war with Iran, massively...