The Real Border Crisis

This issue features a forum led by Lea Ypi on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, with responses from Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Daniel Denvir, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Chandran Kukathas, Ayelet Shachar, and Dara Lind.

Also in this issue:

• Panashe Chigumadzi on the language of “apartheid” and “settler colonialism” in political resistance, from South Africa to Israel
• Aaron Labaree on the moral filmmaking of the late Marcel Ophuls
• Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of the largest immigration detention center in U.S. history
• Emily Baughan on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen
• Lorna Finlayson on the anti-gender backlash, reviewing books by Judith Butler, Sophie Lewis, and Andrea Dworkin

Plus columns by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and David Austin Walsh; essays by Joan Wallach Scott, Lily Hu, Eric Reinhart, and Joseph Margulies; and a special 50th anniversary archive feature with introductions from Wajahat Ali, Elaine Scarry, Becca Rothfeld, Samuel Moyn, David Adler, and Greg Grandin.

Lea Ypi is Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her latest book is Indignity: A Life Reimagined.

Publication date: December 2, 2025