Charlotte E. Rosen

Associate editor at Public Books, Charlotte E. Rosen is a historian of U.S. prisons and writer based in Chicago, IL. Her work has appeared in n+1, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The Cleveland Review of Books.


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“Endless Bad Infinity”: Noah Kulwin and Brendan James on the Feedback Loop of American Empire

“We are not picking on things that were particularly happy memories for the American war machine.”

The Porous Prison

“People who may have conceived of a child on a conjugal visit, and changed that child’s diapers and taught them how to fish inside prison, are now forbidden to give them a hug.”

“The Joke’s Ultimately on Me”: “Diabetic of Enlightenment” on Academic Twitter

When it comes to academia, we live in a moment of heightened contradictions. And yet, graduate students and junior professors are frequently told we mustn’t rock the boat even as it sinks farther and farther into the neoliberal abyss. The weight of this disconnect was bound to break eventually. Twitter, now regrettably known as X, […]

More Than Hearts and Minds?

Armageddon Time is undercut by the very forces it hopes to expose: white complicity, forged through the exploitation of Black life.