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December 2000/January 2001

The Future of Affirmative Action

A debate on the future of affirmative action with Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier, Ward Connerly, Howard Gardner, and others. Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer on the American jobs machine. Poetry by Jorie Graham and Carl Phillips; George Scialabba on Lionel Trilling, and more.

 

Forum 

The Future of Affirmative Action 
PROMOTING DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT REQUIRES US TO RETHINK TESTING AND “MERITOCRACY”
SUSAN STURM AND LANI GUINIER
RESPONSES FROM STEPHEN STEINBERG, HOWARD GARDNER, MARY C. WATERS AND CAROLYN BOYES-WATSON, PAUL OSTERMAN, WARD CONNERLY, MAUREEN A. SCULLY AND DEBORAH M. KOLB, MICHAEL J. PIORE, PETER SACKS, AND PETER CAPPELLI. STURM AND GUINIER REPLY.

Essay

The American Jobs Machine
Is the new economy creating good jobs?
Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer
Ethics and Equality
Fogel, Dworkin, and Cohen on egalitarianism
Stuart White
Fiction
The Pretty Ones Have Their Uses
Co-winner of the Eighth Annual Short Story Contest
Girija Tropp
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Kate Lilley
Introduced by John Tranter
Break Me to Prove I Am Unbroken
Sophie Cabot Black
The Deposition
Carl Phillips
In Memoriam Richard and Yael
Gilbert Sorrentino
Countdown to Pearl String of Planets
Tessa Rumsey
Weathers
Ben Doyle
Argentina
Laura Hartmark
The First Line of My Dissertation
Caroline Crumpacker
Bouleversement
Jorie Graham
On Film
My Brother’s Keeper
Yang Zhang’s Shower
Alan A. Stone

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