Editor @BostonReview; Fellow-in-Residence, @HarvardEthics 2018-19. Went to Bluesky: @debchasman.bsky.social
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Joined July 2014
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"Western states will increasingly deviate toward a fake rules-based order rather than a law-centered order, while the countries in the Global South will take up the banner of international law." @tparsi talks with Rajan Menon: bostonreview.net/articles/wh…
On murdered Palestinian journalists: "When al-Sharif began crying that heartbreaking day in front of al-Shifa Hospital, you could hear the people around him comforting and encouraging him: 'Continue! Continue! You’re our voice.'" bostonreview.net/articles/is…
On Lula's spectacular achievement -- creating a winning party built on social movements and delivering widely-distributed gains for workers. bostonreview.net/articles/lu…
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"A young man burning alive in his makeshift hospital bed singed the unspeakable into world memory—a short memory, a hyperactive memory with attention-deficit, a deliberately porous memory without industrial chronicity behind it..." 🔥 @FadyJoudah lithub.com/a-glass-of-water-…
"There are many authors, of course, who have written about the people and problems of Appalachia who don’t have eugenicists for pen-pals and mentors." @elizabethcatte on J.D. Vance: bostonreview.net/articles/el…
Biden's announcement will protect some families from a draconian Clinton-era immigration law. I wrote about its ongoing bureaucratic violence here: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…
My colleague Hannah Liberman's first published essay is a must read--a devastating story of loss and a fierce call to action on the opioid epidemic: crybabyzine.com/2023/04/the-…
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@KeeangaYamahtta interviews @BostonReview contributing editor Robin D. G. Kelley on Black Studies: "If we cannot provide a fair and objective and useful education in public schools, then movements will have to create alternative institutions and structures.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-…
Beautiful, powerful essay by Panashe Chigumadzi, @CornelWest on James Cone, John Mbiti, & Desmond Tutu: "In the overwhelming nightmare of Black social death, faith in Blackness is necessarily theological." bostonreview.net/articles/bl…
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It's finally here! So proud of the new @BostonReview issue. Many thanks to: Adom Getachew @EliDFriedman @DanielaGabor
@nssylla @DrHeatherBerg @HarshaWalia @_RajPatel
@4noura @mieinouye @nojangkhatami @Prof_Klinger
@XazaarAdjame @NothiasT @omarmdajani, Asli Bali, and Robin Kelley!
Read @faisaldevji on what the liberal responses to the Rushdie affair get wrong: bostonreview.net/articles/sa…
"There are many authors, of course, who have written about the people and problems of Appalachia who don’t have eugenicists for pen-pals and mentors." Fantastic piece on Vance from @elizabethcatte
As J. D. Vance wins the Ohio GOP Senate primary, your reminder that his smash-hit book, Hillbilly Elegy, is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia: bostonreview.net/articles/el…
Really interesting piece on feminist texts that grapple with the existential challenges of motherhood and why that tradition is strikingly white. bostonreview.net/articles/ha…
Great tribute to Lani Guinier. Thanks @gmstorres. lpeproject.org/blog/remember…
Fantastic interview--
Interviewed icons✨for @BostonReview, spoke to Angela Davis, Beth Richie, Gina Dent, and Erica Meiners about their new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. bostonreview.net/articles/wh…
A personal piece I wrote that makes the punitive 1996 immigration reform law its real subject.
No functioning, humane immigration system tears law-abiding, hardworking families apart. This is exactly why we need reform. nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…
I wrote a piece that's personal, but mostly about the 1996 immigration law. We don't talk about it much, but like the crime bill of the same era, it normalized cruelty: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021…
On the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, the always phenomenal Elaine Scarry writes on white supremacy and our attachment to nuclear weapons. bostonreview.net/war-securit…
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Really interesting comparative piece on impeachment and constitutional design. There are lots of better ways to do this.
#Trump's trial always had a foregone conclusion—but not necessarily because of the Senate Republicans.
@aziz_huq, @tomginsburg, and David Landau argue that we must learn from other countries to design less certain #impeachments: bostonreview.net/politics-la…
Fantastic conversation between @brandonmterry and Judith Butler about nonviolence, equality, and race.
“I have to understand that when I destroy another person, or when I destroy a set of living processes, I also destroy something of myself, because the self that I am is not just this bounded and discrete ego, it’s a set of relationships.” — Judith Butler bostonreview.net/philosophy-…