Brute Force and Plunder - Paperback

by Robin D. G. Kelley (Author), Rana Aziz (Author), Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Author)

In Boston Review's new issue Brute Force and Plunder, Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana trace the path to the Trump doctrine through U.S. coercion in the Middle East, Gerald Epstein examines the crypto coalition's plan, and Vivian Gornick revisits a childhood memoir from Nazi Germany.

Also in this issue:

On ICE: Robin D. G. Kelley puts terror tactics in context, Liv Veazey covers the Canal Street raids, and Joshua Craze reports from immigration court

Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach unpack Democrats' timidity in the face of authoritarianism

Photographer Salih Basheer documents loss and displacement in Sudan

Benjamin Balthaser reviews historian Mark Mazower's On Antisemitism

Plus columns by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and David Austin Walsh; fiction from Emmett Rensin; and a special 50th anniversary archive feature with introductions from George Scialabba, Jeet Heer, Junot Díaz, Jessie Kindig, Daniel Denvir, Pankaj Mishra, and Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Author Biography

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His many books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

Aziz Rana is Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. His latest book is The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a columnist at Boston Review. His books include Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.

Vivian Gornick is author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.