Deborah Chasman
Editor at Boston Review
Editor @BostonReview; Fellow-in-Residence, @HarvardEthics 2018-19.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonreview.net | Deborah Chasman |Joshua Cohen
Dear Reader,The first issue of Boston Review appeared in June 1975. The magazine was then called New Boston Review, published by a small nonprofit and focused on literature and the arts. Vol. 1, No. 1 was 32 pages and sold for 75 cents, in tabloid format, with Susan Sontag in the front and classifieds in the back. In 1991, with New gone from the name, the magazine took a sharp editorial turn. Politics had always been in our pages, but we resolved it would now be our beating heart.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
bostonreview.net | Deborah Chasman
Dear Reader,Donald Trump spent his first days back in the White House rolling out plans for mass deportations, an unbridled assault on civil rights, and the defunding of vital social programs. Meanwhile, the tech billionaire class has grown even more powerful. Its tightening grip on news and social media—coupled with the Trump administration’s attempts at repression and censorship—poses a serious threat to independent publishing.
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Jul 8, 2024 |
bostonreview.net | Deborah Chasman
Dear Reader,Four years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published an essay that changed the world. It was written by Amy Moran-Thomas, an anthropologist at MIT. When COVID-19 struck her family in 2020, she became interested in pulse oximeters—ubiquitous medical devices, used to measure oxygen in the blood. She knew that light-sensing devices sometimes produce inaccurate results for patients with darker skin.
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Nov 9, 2023 |
bostonreview.net | Deborah Chasman |Joshua Cohen
Dear Reader,Boston Review was founded nearly 50 years ago. Since then, we have become “an indispensable pillar of the public sphere,” as sociologist Alondra Nelson recently put it. We are also a small, independent nonprofit, and we need your support more than ever. We know you turn to Boston Review for serious writing.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
bostonreview.net | Noura Erakat |Deborah Chasman
This week, Boston Review coeditor Deborah Chasman spoke with Palestinian human rights activist and lawyer Noura Erakat about Hamas’s attack, the response by Israel and the United States, and why the condemnation of war crimes—by both Hamas and Israel—is no substitute for politics. Deborah Chasman: Thanks for joining me. It’s always difficult to talk about politics in the wake of spectacular violence, so I’m grateful to be in conversation. It feels particularly constrained this time.
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