Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

A World Apart

Ryan D. Enos

Essays

Return to Haiti

Colin Dayan

Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street

Jeanne Mansfield

The Cost of Death

Pamela S. Karlan

The People and the Patriots

Who Led Whom in the American Revolution?
Alfred F. Young

Politics by Other Means

In Egypt, Street Protests Set the Agenda
Mona El-Ghobashy

The Return of States’ Rights

Why Rick Perry Is Important Even
If He Loses
Tom Barry

Unpacking

Ben Katchor’s The Cardboard Valise
John Crowley

Where Love Grows

Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot
Leland de la Durantaye—Web only

Violence and Human Progress

A Correspondence on Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature
Morgan Meis and S. Abbas Raza—Web only

We Are All Khaled Said

An Interview with the Administrators of the Facebook Page that Fueled the Egyptian Revolution
Anver M. Emon, Ellen Lust, and Audrey Macklin—Web only

Dancing to the Port

Occupy Oakland’s General Strike
Danelle Morton—Web only

Reclaiming the Republic

An Interview with Lawrence Lessig
David V. Johnson—Web only

Containing Outrage

How Police Power Tames the Occupy Movement
Alasdair Roberts—Web only

Occupation as Fairness

What John Rawls Would Make of the Occupy Movement
Joshua Cohen and Seth Resler—Web only

Occupy the Future

What lessons should we draw from the Occupy movement? A group of Stanford University professors share their opinions.—Web only

The Plague

Farmers and Settlers Clash in South Hebron
David Shulman—Web only

A Shared Fate

The Political Implications of the Eurozone Crisis
Jan-Werner Müller—Web only

Fiction

Mutts

David Riordan

On Film

Mock Star

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

2011 Poetry Contest

Selected by Tomaž Šalamun
Heather Tone

Cold Gem

William Fuller’s Hallucination
Cal Bedient

Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Montgomery

Microreviews

Laura Solomon
Lisa Fishman
Eugenijus Ališanka
Albert Mobilio
Shira Dentz

Poems

Poet’s Sampler

Corina Copp
Introduced by Dorothea Lasky
—Web only

The Man from the Phone Company

J.T. Welsch

The Harp and the Machine

Terese Svoboda

Argument in Optative

Emily Wolahan

Commonplace

Rusty Morrison

Commonplace

Rusty Morrison

A Taxonomy of the Etiquette of Brandos

Eric Kocher

The Spot

Joseph P. Wood

Villanelle on a Line from Macbeth

Michael Davis