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• Making Hope Possible

  By Ben Schacht| Boston Review Verified From global warming and rising fascism to surveillance capitalism and deaths of despair, it’s hard not to feel that the world is hurtling toward dystopia. At the same time, advances in science and technology, militant youth activism on behalf of climate and social justice, and the global resurgence of egalitarian, social democratic politics offer genuine glimmers of hope: through concerted action, we can not only avert the worst but also set our sights on an emphatically utopian future.

  By Ben Schacht · Boston Review

  Aug. 21, 2023

• The Pursuit of Empire

  By Ben Schacht| Boston Review Verified “I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!” When Frederick Douglass spoke these words in 1852, his target was the hypocrisy of American slavery. But the scope of his indictment is potentially much wider: throughout its history the United States has routinely contradicted its founding ideals. Indeed, the U.S. state arose through the mass violation of life, liberty, and property.

  By Ben Schacht · Boston Review

  Jul. 03, 2023

• Making Hope Possible

  By Ben Schacht| Boston Review Verified From global warming and rising fascism to surveillance capitalism and deaths of despair, it’s hard not to feel that the world is hurtling toward dystopia. At the same time, advances in science and technology, militant youth activism on behalf of climate and social justice, and the global resurgence of egalitarian, social democratic politics offer genuine glimmers of hope: through concerted action, we can not only avert the worst but also set our sights on an emphatically utopian future.

  By Ben Schacht · Boston Review

  Aug. 21, 2023

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