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April/May 1999

When Rights Are Wrong

Debate on Tracey L. Meares and Dan Kahan’s essay on the role of rights in policing poor neighborhoods, with responses by Alan Dershowitz, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Carol Steiker, Wesley Skogan, and others. An interview with Rev. Eugene Rivers III; Russell Jacoby on the aesthetic pose and political thought, and more.

 

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When Rights Are Wrong
THE PARADOX OF PRIVACY RIGHTS IN CHICAGO PUBLIC HOUSING
TRACEY L. MEARES AND DAN M. KAHAN
RESPONSES FROM ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN, JOEL F. HANDLER, CAROL S. STEIKER, WESLEY G. SKOGAN, MARGARET A. BURNHAM, FRANKLIN E. ZIMRING, JEREMY WALDRON, BERNARD E. HARCOURT, ANTHONY PAUL FARLEY, AND RICHARD H. PILDES. MEARES AND KAHAN REPLY.

Interview

Silence Is Death
Rev. Eugene Rivers III talks to Eva Thorne

Essays

From Utopia to Myopia
How the aesthetic pose crippled political thought
Russell Jacoby
Uncle Franz’s Legacy
A personal history of two Germanies
Vivian Rothstein
Club Chaos
Understanding the South Beach Effect
Neil Shister
Fiction
The Night of the Scorpions
Elisha Porat
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Tan Lin
Introduced by Charles Bernstein
Censorship
Lee Upton
[because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup]
D. A. Powell
No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout
Calvin Bedient
Ghazal
Agha Shahid Ali
Getting Out
Robert Lietz
Air for Mercury
Brenda Hillman
SHAZAM!
Allen Grossman
On Film
Escape from Auschwitz
Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful
Alan A. Stone

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