A reprint of the article What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence now titled What Is Political Violence? It was published in the Boston Review in September 2025 as a reaction to the Charlie Kirk murder. It’s clearly reprinted as a reaction to the ratcheting up of violence by ICE.
A good read, if somewhat academic. I think the unaddressed question is: if all change is met by those in power with various forms of violence, how does peaceful change ever occur? If democracy is the answer, what is the response when democratic change is cut off?
Steven A. Guccione 