Forum
Citizen Consumer
Dara O’Rourke — with responses from:
SCOTT NOVA; JULIET B. SCHOR; LISA ANN RICHEY AND STEFANO PONTE; SCOTT E. HARTLEY; MARGARET LEVI; AURET VAN HEERDEN; ANDREW SZASZ; AND RICHARD M. LOCKE.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: A World Apart
Ryan D. Enos
Dispatch: Return to Haiti
Colin Dayan
Dispatch: Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street
Jeanne Mansfield
Karlan’s Court: The Cost of Death
Pamela S. Karlan
Context
The People and the Patriots: Who Led Whom in the American Revolution?
Alfred F. Young
Politics by Other Means: In Egypt, Street Protests Set the Agenda
Mona El-Ghobashy
Books & Ideas
The Return of States’ Rights; Why Rick Perry Is Important Even if He Loses
Tom Barry
Unpacking: Ben Katchor’s The Cardboard Valise
John Crowley
Fiction
Mutts
David Riordan
On Film
Mock Star: Lar von Trier’s Melancholia
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poetry Contest Winner
Heather Tone, selected by Tomaž Šalamun
Cold Gem: William Fuller’s Hallucinations
Cal Bedient
Each Passing Thought: Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Montgomery
Microreviews
Poems
The Man From the Phone Company
J. T. Welsch
The Harp and the Machine
Terese Svoboda
Argument in Optative
Emily Wolahan
Commonplace
Rusty Morrison
Commonplace
Rusty Morrison
A Taxonomy of the Etiquette of Brandos
Eric Kocher
The Spot
Joseph P. Wood
Villanelle on a Line from Macbeth
Michael Davis
