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March/April 2010

Eliot Spitzer leads a forum on government’s proper role in the market; responses from Dean Baker, Robert Johnson, Sarah Binder, and others.

Can mobile phones can cause an economic miracle in Africa?; Colin Dayan on dead dogs, breed banning, and preemptive justice; Ned Block and Philip Kitcher on Darwin’s secular critics; a poetry special including work by Jorie Graham, Adrienne Rich, and Carolyn Forché.

Forum

The Rules: Government’s proper role in the market

Eliot Spitzer — with responses from:

DEAN BAKER; ROBERT JOHNSON; AND SARAH BINDER, ANDREW GELMAN, AND JOHN SIDES.

Essays

State of the Nation: What Happened in Massachusetts

Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III

Africa Calling: Can mobile phones make a miracle?

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti

Remembering Haiti: Lessons from the field

Sidney W. Mintz

Dead Dogs: Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

Colin Dayan

Right By Others: On the theory and practice of justice

Vivian Gornick

Misunderstanding Darwin: Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong

Ned Block and Philip Kitcher

Past Foward: Coping with post–Cold War Romania

Paul Hockenos

What Does that Server Really Serve?

Richard M. Stallman

Fiction

Seven Little Stories about Sex

Eric Freeze

On Film

Sins of the Father: Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon

Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Rasheeda Plenty, introduced by A. Van Jordan

Body of Work: Thom Gunn’s Selected Poems and Joshua Weiner’s At the Barriers

Tess Taylor

Know-How: H. L. Hix’s Incident Light

Troy Jollimore

Restless: Carl Phillips’s Speak Low

Katie Peterson

Microreviews

Lytton Smith

James Shea

Sophie Robinson

Jason Shinder

Andrew Zawacki

Poems

Hills, South Truro, 1930

Ernest Farrés (translated by Lawrence Venuti)

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