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• From the Editors: On Solidarity

  By Deborah Chasman Verified, Matt Lord Verified| Boston Review Verified Purchase this issue here, or become a member and get it as your first issue. Solidarity has long been a key idea in struggles for a more just world. What does it mean, and how can movements build enough of it to change society? Organizer and political theorist Mie Inouye leads this issue’s forum on obstacles to collective action today.

  By Deborah Chasman Verified, Matt Lord Verified · Boston Review

  Sep. 13, 2023

• From the Editor: Thinking in a Pandemic

  By Matt Lord Verified, Jonathan Fuller, Marc Lipsitch, Natalie Exner Dean| Boston Review Verified COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason. This note is featured in Boston Review’s new book, Thinking in a Pandemic. Nearly a year after the first COVID-19 cases were detected in late 2019, the toll of the coronavirus pandemic is grim. Globally, the disease has directly claimed over a million lives—more than 225,000 in the United States alone. Billions of others have been thrown into deep distress, both by the virus itself and by efforts to contain it.

  By Matt Lord Verified, Jonathan Fuller, Marc Lipsitch, Natalie Exner Dean · Boston Review

  Nov. 03, 2020

• “Listen to the Science”

  By Matt Lord Verified, Tim Maudlin, Michael D Gordin, Steven Shapin| Boston Review Verified Are scientists more virtuous than the rest of us? Can religion and science be happily reconciled? the most recent scientific report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in lieu of a prepared statement.

  By Matt Lord Verified, Tim Maudlin, Michael D Gordin, Steven Shapin · Boston Review

  Sep. 24, 2019

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