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January/February 2015

Ferguson Won't Change Anything. What Will?

Glenn Loury leads a forum on Ferguson, with responses from Doug Henwood, Danielle Allen, and others. Elsewhere in the issue: Steven Shapin, Samuel Moyn, Amy Dean, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, and others.

Glenn Loury leads a forum on Ferguson, with responses from Doug Henwood, Danielle Allen, and others. Elsewhere in the issue: Steven Shapin on whether science makes you good, Samuel Moyn on the origins of liberalism, Amy Dean profiles Richard Trumka, and Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on affirmative consent laws.

Forum

Ferguson Won’t Change Anything. What Will?

Glenn Loury

WITH RESPONSES FROM CHRISTOPHER LEBRON, DANIELLE ALLEN, MELISSA NOBLES, HAROLD POLLACK, GARY SEGURA, TRACEY L. MEARES AND BENJAMIN JUSTICE, SUSAN STURM, MICHAEL C. DAWSON, DOUG HENWOOD, AND DORIAN T. WARREN.

Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

Foundations

State of the Nation: Democrats’ Immigration Burden

Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal

Dispatch: South Africa’s 99 Percent

Jessica Pothering

Made in America: Dressing Down

Claude S. Fischer

Wonders: One in Five

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Context

The Desire to Know: Scientific Virtue Is Worth Saving

Steven Shapin

Private Life

A Matter of the Skies

Dave Byrne

Fiction

There Was a Fox in the Bedroom

Daisy Johnson

Books & Ideas

Did Christianity Create Liberalism?

Samuel Moyn

A Bigger Tent: Can Richard Trumka Save the Labor Movement?

Amy B. Dean

Sex Is Serious: Affirmative Consent Laws Miss the Point

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Nicholas Shapland introduced by Kathleen Ossip

Death Mask: Louise Glück’s Faithful and Virtuous Night

Craig Morgan Teicher

Get Lost: Caroline Bergvall’s Drift

Dana Levin

Microreviews

Andrew Durbin’s Mature Themes

Andrew Ridker

Dodie Bellamy’s The TV Sutras

Iris Cushing

Sawako Nakayasu’s The Ants

Jennifer Kronovet

Martha Silano’s Reckless Lovely

Lisa Perdigao

Maureen McLane’s This Blue

Robert Schnall

On Film

Integrity and Despair: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman

Alan A. Stone

Poems

Fourth Theory: Pleasure, and We Stared Awed

Franke Varca

The Magician’s Volunteer

Christopher Roberts

After J.S. Bach / Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012

J. Mae Barizo

Pastoral: I Live in the Country

Arielle Greenberg

Little Domesday Clock

Sam Witt

Nuances of a Theme After Stevens After Williams

Micah Bateman

Secret Threshing

KMA Sullivan

[So, the day will become a small boat]

Monica Berlin & Beth Marzoni

The First Marriage

Kimberley Grey

White Noise

Eric Amling

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