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December 1999/January 2000

Educating a Democracy

A debate on standards in public education, with Deboarah Meier and responses by Abigail Thernstrom, Gary Nash, Theodore Sizer, and others. Marjorie Perloff on poetry and cultural studies. Dmitri Tymoczko on Beethoven and Kant; W.S. Merwin translates Dante’s Purgatorio, and more.

 

Forum 

Educating a Democracy 
STANDARDS AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
DEBORAH MEIER
RESPONSES FROM ABIGAIL THERNSTROM, BOB CHASE, GARY B. NASH, LINDA NATHAN, RICHARD J. MURNANE, WILLIAM AYERS, AND THEODORE SIZER. DEBORAH MEIER RESPONDS.

Essays

In Defense of Poetry
Put the literature back into literary studies
Marjorie Perloff
The Sublime Beethoven
What the composer and Kant have in common
Dmitri Tymoczko
Real Tax Reform
The case for a progressive consumption tax
Edward J. McCaffery
Fiction
Regeneration
Winner of the Seventh Annual Short Story Contest
Pauls Toutonghi
New Fiction Forum
American Faith, American Violence
Robert Stone and the the delusions that shape our lives
Michael Greenberg
Western Voices
Kent Haruf, Plainsong, The Tie That Binds, and Where You Once Belonged
Laura Hendrie
Voices from the Old Country
Leslie Epstein, Ice Fire Water
Judy Budnitz, If I Told You Once
Paul Gediman
Judith Grossman, How Aliens Think
Susan Daitch
Kathryn Davis, The Walking Tour
Edwin Frank
Walter Mosley, Walkin’ the Dog
Peter McCarthy
Poetry
Highway to English
Suzanne Wise
The Origin of Olive Oyl
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
The Kitchen of Francesca and Paolo
Joshua Corey
Rerum Novarum
Gerardo Deniz
Romulus Augustulus
Gerardo Deniz
Making History
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XXIX
Ttranslated by W. S. Merwin
On Film
The Artist as Survivor
Wu Tian Ming’s King of Masks
Alan A. Stone

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