Boston Review - October 2018

EVIL EMPIRE BOSTON REVIEW Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Yuri Herrera Pankaj Mishra Frank Pasquale Arundhati Roy Nikhil Pal Singh Evil Emp ...

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Evil Empire A Reckoning with Power This issue of Boston Review is made possible by the generous support of the cameron schrier f ...

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5 7 16 30 41 51 56 67 77 89 contents Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen The End of the End of History Maximillian ...

106 114 123 Quantifying Love Frank Pasquale Monsters vs. Empire Mark Bould Appendix 15, Number 2. The Agent Probii Exploration Y ...

Evil Empire 5 just outside of tucson, at the Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, more than 4,000 decommissioned military aircraft sit ...

Chasman & Cohen As part of a cross-disciplinary project, our contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, ...

Evil Empire 7 The End of the End of History Maximillian Alvarez among the prizes at stake in the endless war of politics is hist ...

Alvarez into the 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama proph- esied that the fall of communism signaled “the e ...

Evil Empire 9 preserve liberalism in the political sphere. I want to avoid the materialist determinism that says that liberal ec ...

Alvarez For the rest of us, neoliberalism has embedded itself so thoroughly in the organization of human life around the globe t ...

Evil Empire 11 bodies that secure its dominance around the world leaves us wondering: Where could history possibly go from here? ...

Alvarez Democrats and Republicans over when, exactly—not if—history ended, which parts of our society are still stuck “in histor ...

Evil Empire 13 windowless enclosure of the neoliberal order, the circuits of historical memory are frying, history itself has be ...

Alvarez are the very circumstances in which Trump-style politics has thrived, moving seamlessly in the taken-for-grantedness of ...

Evil Empire 15 at the level of policy in the country’s highest offices is a clear sign that the battle for history is still on. ...

Singh Banking on the Cold War Nikhil Pal Singh on september 21, 1945—five months after Franklin Roosevelt’s death— President Har ...

Evil Empire 17 with Hitler. There are no returns on appeasement.” Forrestal, a skilled bureaucratic infighter, had made his fort ...

Singh Moreover, this infrastructure is under the command of one person, supported by a labor force numbering in the millions, an ...