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March/April 2008

Jonathan Zittrain leads a forum on the balance between security and freedom on the Internet, with responses from Richard Stallman, Bruce Owen, Susan Crawford, and others.

John Rawls on baseball, the best of all games; Michael Gecan on suburban decline; a short story by Dagoberto Gilb; Stephen Burt reviews Laura Kasischke; Katie Peterson on Robert Hass.

Forum

Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It: How to the meet the security threat

Jonathan Zittrain — with responses from:

BRUCE M. OWEN, RICHARD STALLMAN, SUSAN CRAWFORD , DAVID D. CLARK, ROGER A. GRIMES, AND HAL VARIAN; ZITTRAIN RESPONDS.

Essays

States of the Nation: Voters and Parties

Stephen Ansolabehere

On Borrowed Time: Urban decline moves to the suburbs

Michael Gecan

The Cure: Can doctors change how they think?

Suzanne Gordon

The Monarch of All: The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys

Roger Boylan

For Love and Money: Ha Jin’s A Free Life

Mythili G. Rao

On Film

No Redemption: Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood

Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Stephen Sturgeon, introduced by Philip Nikolayev

The Speed of Life: Laura Kasischke’s Lilies Without

Stephen Burt

Seeing Voices: Hannah Weiner’s Hannah Weiner’s Open House

Joyelle McSweeney

The Truth of Things: Robert Hass’s Time and Materials

Katie Peterson

Microreviews

Poems

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