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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide is Boston Reviews 50th anniversary issue. This milestone issue features many of our longtime contributors, including Robin D. G. Kelley, Vivian Gornick, and Elaine Scarry, and celebrates classics from our archive. In this issue, historian and Boston Review contributing editor Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomskys landmark 1967 essay, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, published near the height of the Vietnam War. The essays dissident injunctionthat those in privileged positions have a duty to speak the truth and expose liesremains a powerful call to conscience, Kelley argues, but the anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles of even earlier decades reveal its limits, and they show how to refuse and resist complicity in our own age of fascism and genocide. Political philosopher Martin ONeill, Palestinian human rights lawyer Jennifer Zacharia, and historian David Waldstreicher expand on what this moment requiresof intellectuals, of journalists, and of us all.
Also in the issue, Vivian Gornick reviews Shulamith Firestones Airless Spaces, Elaine Scarry challenges the wisdom that Plato banished the poets, Brandon M. Terry interviews political scientist Cathy Cohen about social movements and the future of Black politics, Joelle M. Abi-Rached exposes the contradictions of the liberal international order over Gaza, Samuel Hayim Brody reviews three memoirs on the Arab Jewish world destroyed by colonialism, David Austin Walsh explains what Zohran Mamdanis triumph means for the future of the Democratic Party, and Sandeep Vaheesan looks to the New Deal to assess the abundance agenda.
Plus, seven writers reflect on notable essays from our archive in a special anniversary feature:
Susan Faludi on Vivian Gornick and anti-feminism
Naomi Klein on William Callison + Quinn Slobodian and the global right
Jay Caspian Kang on Ol?fẹmi O. T??w? and identity politics
Ryu Spaeth on Merve Emre and the personal essay
Lea Ypi on Joseph Carens and amnesty
Nathan J. Robinson on Noam Chomsky and U.S. foreign policy
Rick Perlstein on Elaine Scarry and democracy after 9/11
Author: Robin D. G. Kelley,Vivian Gornick,Elaine Scarry
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Boston Review
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781946511973
Language: English
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