Featuring Zeynep Pamuk on building science back better, and Michael Harris on human understanding in the age of AI.
Also in this issue:
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on a Brazilian strategy for holding Trump to account
Lorna Finlayson on Habermas and the fate of critical theory
Omer Bartov talks with Arnon Grunberg about Israel’s paranoid memory politics
Yarimar Bonilla on Puerto Rico’s water crisis
Paul Hockenos on a family’s unraveling in occupied Ukraine
Benjamin Balthaser on the Obama Presidential Center
Aslı Ü. Bâli on U.S. weakness in the Persian Gulf
Aaron Regunberg makes the case against “climate hushing”
Richard Moran on a reckless report on the humanities
China Miéville talks with Mark Bould about his epic new novel—his first in twenty years
James G. Chappel on Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America
Daniel Wortel-London on a new collection of Dwight Macdonald’s essays, Atrocities of the Mind
Omer Bartov is Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His latest book is Israel: What Went Wrong?.
Lorna Finlayson, a columnist at Boston Review, teaches political philosophy at the University of Essex. She is author of The Political Is Political and An Introduction to Feminism.
China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow. He has written for various publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
Zeynep Pamuk is Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. She is author of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.
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Publication date: September 22, 2026
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