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April/May 1995

Equality and Responsibility

Debate on John Roemer’s “Equality and Responsibilty ,” with responses by T.M. Scanlon, Robert Solow, Richard Epstein, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Nancy L. Rosenblum and others. Also: Marc Haefele on immigrant bashing in California, Alan Stone on Pulp Fiction’s bloody success, reviews of Robert Pinsky’s new Dante translation, Alice Hoffman’s new novel, and more.

Equality and Responsibility
John E. Roemer with responses by T. M. Scanlon, Robert M. Solow, Samuel Scheffler, Richard A. Epstein, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eric S. Maskin, Arthur Ripstein, S. L. Hurley, and Nancy L. Rosenblum. Photographs by Peter Ginter, Lynn Johnson, and Shawn G. Henry. John Roemer responds.

Poet’s Sampler
Alan Shapiro introduces Joshua Weiner

After Liberalism
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

Sunset
Rachel Hadas

Pulp Fiction
Alan A. Stone

California Shipwreck
Marc B. Haefele

View-Master
Thomas Sayers Ellis

Chicken Livers
Joann Kobin

Fiction Reviews

Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Neil Gordon

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Kerry Fried

Poetry Reviews

The Inferno of Dante translated by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur
Rachel Jacoff

Autobiographies by Alfred Corn
Robyn Selman

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