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March/April 2008

Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It

Jonathan Zittrain leads a forum on the balance between security and freedom on the Internet, with responses from Richard Stallman, Bruce Owen, Susan Crawford, and others. Plus, John Rawls on baseball; Michael Gecan on suburban decline; a short story by Dagoberto Gilb, and more.

 

 

Forum 

Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It: How to the meet the security threat

Jonathan Zittrain — with responses from:

BRUCE M. OWEN, RICHARD STALLMAN, SUSAN CRAWFORD , DAVID D. CLARK, ROGER A. GRIMES, AND HAL VARIAN; ZITTRAIN RESPONDS.

Essays

States of the Nation: Voters and Parties
Stephen Ansolabehere
The Best of All Games
John Rawls
On Borrowed Time: Urban decline moves to the suburbs
Michael Gecan
The Cure: Can doctors change how they think?
Suzanne Gordon
The Monarch of All: The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys
Roger Boylan
For Love and Money: Ha Jin’s A Free Life

 

Fiction

The Last Time I Saw Junior
Dagoberto Gilb

On Film

No Redemption: Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler
Stephen Sturgeon, introduced by Philip Nikolayev
The Speed of Life: Laura Kasischke’s Lilies Without
Stephen Burt
Seeing Voices: Hannah Weiner’s Hannah Weiner’s Open House

Joyelle McSweeney

The Truth of Things: Robert Hass’s Time and Materials
Katie Peterson
Microreviews

Poems

down salute
Raymond McDaniel
onyx and arcadia
Raymond McDaniel
Contact
Linnea Ogden
About Marriage
Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
Poem; or, The Artifacts
Dan Beachy-Quick
Bill Brandt
Gerard Melanga
Garland
Kazim Ali
Sparrow
Melissa Kwazny
Autobiography
Samuel Menashe
Neglect

Priscilla Becker

Attack Attack
Mark McKee

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