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.