Harvard Book Store and the 
Boston Review 
welcome 
Elaine Scarry
—the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University—
Quinn Slobodian
—professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University—and
 Brandon M. Terry
—the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Codirector of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center—for a discussion celebrating the 
Boston Review 
and their 50th anniversary issue 
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
. They will be joined in conversation by 
Aziz Rana
—author and the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College.
Ticketing
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 Boston Review's
 50th anniversary issue will be available for purchase at the event.
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide.
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About 
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
 is 
Boston Review
’s 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 Chomsky’s landmark 1967 essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” published near the height of the Vietnam War. The essay’s dissident injunction—that those in privileged positions have a duty to “speak the truth and expose lies”—remains 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 O’Neill, Palestinian human rights lawyer Jennifer Zacharia, and historian David Waldstreicher expand on what this moment requires—of intellectuals, of journalists, and of us all.
Also in the issue, Vivian Gornick reviews Shulamith Firestone’s 
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 Mamdani’s 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 Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 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
Bios
Elaine Scarry
 is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her book 
The Body in Pain
 was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Quinn Slobodian
 is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, 
Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right
 and 
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy
. A Guggenheim Fellow for 2025-6, he has been an associate fellow at Chatham House and held residential fellowships at Harvard University and Free University Berlin. 
Project Syndicate 
put him on a list of 30 Forward Thinkers and 
Prospect UK
 named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers.
Brandon M. Terry 
is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Codirector of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is the coeditor, with Tommie Shelby, of
 To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
. and editor of 
Fifty Years Since MLK
.
Aziz Rana
 is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, Rana’s work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country. His first book, 
The Two Faces of American Freedom 
(Harvard University Press) situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His latest book, 
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them
 (University of Chicago Press, 2024), explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century -- especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority -- and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics. Rana is an editorial board member of 
Dissent, The Law and Political Economy Blog, Just Security
, and 
The Journal of American Constitutional History
. He is also a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. ​He received his A.B. from Harvard College 
summa cum laude
 and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, where his dissertation was awarded the University's Charles Sumner Prize.
Masking Policy
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