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February/March 1999

A forum on Randall Forsberg, Jonathan Dean, and Saul Mendlovitz’s essay on preventing war, with responses by Kosta Tsipis, Alan Cranston, and others. Also: Paul Kahn on Pinochet’s trial and the limits of international law. Herbert Gintis, William H. Simon, and others respond to Jeff Gates’s essay on expanding ownership of capital. Loren Goldner on saving Mumia Abu-Jamal. Plus: fiction by Short Story Contest runner-up Rhoda B. Stamell, poetry by Mark Levine, Stephen Burt, and others, book reviews, and more.

 

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Banishing the Spectre of War
A COALITION-BUILDING PLAN TO STOP WAR, GENOCIDE, AND OTHER DEADLY CONFLICTS
RANDALL FORSBERG, JONATHAN DEAN, AND SAUL MENDLOVITZ
RESPONSES FROM KOSTA TSIPIS, MARY KALDOR, ALAN CRANSTON, AND LORA LUMPE. FORSBERG REPLIES.

Essays

The Car As Hero
Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?
Neil Shister
On Pinochet
The dictator’s extradition and the limits of international law
Paul W. Kahn
The Campaign to Save Mumia Adu-Jamal
Will Pennsylvania execute a lifelong black activist?
Loren Goldner
Sharing the Wealth
Responses to Jeff Gates’s “The Ownership Solution”
Jeffersonian Captialism
Herbert Gintis
Ownership and Equality
William H. Simon
Crowded House
Sewin Chan, Henry Schneider, and Joseph Tracy
Who Owns Capital?
Gar Alperovitz
Jeff Gates Replies
Fiction
Love for a Fat Man
Runner-up in the Sixth Annual Short Story Contest
Rhoda B. Stamell
Poetry
Channel
Peter Sacks
Election
Peter Sacks
A Sudden Rain in the Green Mountains
Stephen Burt
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
Joanna Klink
The snow was the future perfect of snow
Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Counting the Forests
Mark Levine
The Sound of Music
Lisa C. Beskin
On Film
Oprah’s Nightmare
Jonathan Demme’s Beloved
Alan A. Stone

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