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Robin West

Robin West is Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the Georgetown University Law Center and author of Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender.

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Schools and Citizens

Today's education reform reflects the American zeal to escape public instiutions, public projects, and public life.

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Michelle Rhee’s Costly Agenda

Michelle Rhee's new book fails as an argument for how to put students first.

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Forum Responses

Response: Rethinking Family Life

Rethinking Family Life James Heckman provides an economic argument for a claim that is often thought to be supported at most by moral considerations: greater societal involvement in the early childhood experiences...
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Response: Too Much Mothering

Nancy Hirschmann raises a host of worries about difference feminism’s accounts of the centrality of caregiving to human flourishing. She also criticizes the public-policy recommendations that care feminists have put forward, premised...
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Response: A Right to Care

Anne Alstott argues that primary caretakers of children ought to be supported financially from the public purse, so that they might be enabled, empowered, or freed to participate in wage and labor...
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Response: A Moral Responsibility

Owen Fiss is right to encourage us to doubt the constitutionality of both state laws and provisions of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act that deny illegal and legal immigrants what might be...
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