September/October 2005
Forum What’s Hurting the Middle Class ELIZABETH WARREN AND AMELIA WARREN TYAGI WITH RESPONSES BY JACOB S. HACKER, JONATHAN GRUBER, G. MARCUS COLE, JEFF MADRICK, STEPHEN BROBECK, DAVID CROCKETT, CHUCK COLLINS, A. MECHELE DICKERSON, TAMARA DRAUT, JARED BERNSTEIN, ROBERT D. MANNING, AND JULIET SCHOR. Essays A Witness to Murder Looking at photographs of the condemned […]
Summer 2005
Forum Crossing the Border Reforming Immigration Policy START BY PROTECTING RIGHTS, NOT BORDERS JACQUELINE BHABHA American Sweatshops ORGANIZING WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY JENNIFER GORDON On Belonging WHAT WE OWE PEOPLE WHO STAY JOSEPH H. CARENS Essays What We Know On the universals of language and rights Noam Chomsky The Power and the Glory Myths […]
April/May 2005
Forum The Believers American Salvation THE PLACE OF CHRISTIANITY IN PUBLIC LIFE ALBERT J. RABOTEAU Compassion Capital BUSH’S FAITH-BASED INTIATIVE IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK LEW DALY Taking Faith Seriously CONTEMPT FOR RELIGION COSTS DEMOCRATS MORE THAN VOTES MIKE GECAN Losing Faith THE DEMOCRATS CALLED, BUT THEY DIDN’T CALL BACK ARI LIPMAN Christ’s Militia HOW […]
February/March 2005
Forum A grand new strategy for American foreign policy STEPHEN M. WALT WITH RESPONSES BY RICHARD FALK, JOSEPH S. NYE, JR., ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN, KHALIL SHIKAKI, NAOMI CHAZAN, ROBERT VICKERS JR., MAHMOUD MANDANI, JOHN TIRMAN, IVO DAALDER AND JAMES LINDSAY, MARY KALDOR, AND ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER. RESPONSE BY STEPHEN M. WALT. Essays Hungry for Air Learning the […]
December 2004/January 2005
Forum The Right Fight DANIEL RICHMAN WITH RESPONSES BY DAVID A. HARRIS, BOB BARR, EDWARD RUBIN, WILLIAM J. STUNTZ, JULIETTE KAYYEM, DAVID A. SKLANSKY, KEVIN R. JOHNSON, ELIZABETH GLAZER, RICHARD T. FORD, AND COREY ROBIN. REPLY FROM DANIEL RICHMAN. Essays Who Owns Bruno Schulz? Poland stumbles over its Jewish past Benjamin Paloff Freedom Railway The […]
October/November 2004
Forum In Empire’s Shadow Time Out of Joint WESTERN DOMINANCE, ISLAMIST TERROR, AND THE ARAB IMAGINATION SADIK J. AL-AZM Tragedy in Darfur ON UNDERSTANDING AND ENDING THE HORROR ALEX DE WAAL Iraq’s Chaos WHY THE INSURGENCY WON’T GO AWAY AHMED S. HASHIM Manifesto AN ARGUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IN TAIWAN THE EDITORS OF TAIWAN; TRANSLATED BY […]
Summer 2004
Forum How Can the Democrats Win? RICK PERLSTEIN WITH RESPONSES BY WILLIAM A. GALSTON, ADOLPH REED JR., RUY TEIXEIRA, DAN CAROL, DANIEL CANTOR, ROBERT B. REICH, MICHAEL C. DAWSON, ELAINE KAMARCK, RICHARD DELGADO, STANLEY ARONOWITZ, PHILIP KLINKER, LARRY M. BARTELS. REPLY FROM RICK PERLSTEIN. Essays Russia’s Quagmire On ending the standoff in Chechnya Rajan Menon Body of the Nation Why women were mutilated in Gujarat Martha C. Nussbaum […]
April/May 2004
Forum WHAT WE OWE TO PARENTS ANNE ALSTOTT WITH RESPONSES FROM ROBIN WEST, AMY L. WAX, EVA KITTAY, DOROTHY ROBERTS, DEBORAH STONE, AND RICHARD A. EPSTEIN. Essays End of the Wild NOW A BOOK! Stephen M. Meyer Saving Social Security Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag Dead End Helena Cobban Reason and Terror Diego Gambetta […]
February/March 2004
Consent and Democracy Resolving to Resist Local governments are trying to resist the Patriot Act Elaine Scarry We the People Who has the last word on the Constitution? Larry Kramer Revolutionary Terror What the public life of American colonists can teach us about politics Barbara Clark Smith Essays Endgame Conservatives after the Cold War Corey […]
December 2003/January 2004
Rebuilding after Violence The Wrong Lessons The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope Alex de Waal Healing Rwanda Can an international court deliver justice? Helena Cobban Exporting Democracy The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova Ralph Cintron, Stevan Weine, and Ferid Agani The New Humanitarianism How military intervention became the norm John Tirman Essays Believing […]
October/November 2003
Forum WHAT MAKES SCHOOLS WORK? RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG AND BERNARD WASOW WITH RESPONSES FROM WILLIAM A. GALSTON, RICHARD J. MURNANE, REG WEAVER, JOSEPH P. VITERITTI, AMY HANAUER, AND DEBORAH MEIER. Essays Dominance and Its Dilemmas Noam Chomsky The Iraqi Shiites Juan Cole Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock Duncan Kennedy Exit Strategy James K. Galbraith Tragedy and Justice Martha Nussbaum Poetry An […]
Summer 2003
Essays Brazil’s Hope Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America? Leonardo Avritzer The Secret History of the Magna Carta Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember Peter Linebaugh The Hard Road to Fascism Today’s antiliberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe Abbott Gleason The Patriot Act on Campus Defending the university […]
April/May 2003
Forum Islam and the Challenge of Democracy CAN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TAKE ROOT IN FAITH? KHALED ABOU EL FADL WITH RESPONSES BY JOHN L. ESPOSITO, NADER A. HASHEMI, NOAH FELDMAN, JEREMY WALDRON, M.A. MUQTEDAR KHAN, A. KEVIN REINHART, SABA MAHMOOD, MOHAMMAD H. FADEL, BERNARD HAYKEL, WILLIAM B. QUANDT. KHALED ABOU EL FADL REPLIES. Essays […]
February/March 2003
War and Democracy A Warning from History Don’t expect democracy in Iraq John W. Dower Waiting for War in Damascus Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down Helena Cobban Nationalism’s Mired Hopes Partition, Cold War, and the conflict in Kashmir Uday Singh Mehta The Best Defense The problem with Bush’s “preemptive” […]
December 2002/January 2003
Forum Civil Liberties after 9/11 DAVID COLE RESPONSES FROM BONNIE HONIG, AMATAI ETZIONI, GERALD NEUMAN, JULIETTE KAYYEM, PHILIP A. THOMAS, ALAN DERSHOWITZ, OREN GROSS, HIROSHI MOTOMURA, LAURENCE TRIBE, WENDY KAMINER, AND MARI MATSUDA. DAVID COLE REPLIES. Essays The Return of the Repressed The strange case of Masud Khan Robert S. Boynton Fiction Men I Don’t […]
October/November 2002
Forum Citizenship in Emergency CAN DEMOCRACY PROTECT US AGAINST TERRORISM? ELAINE SCARRY RESPONSES FROM RICHARD FALK, PAUL W. KAHN, STEVEN M. WALT, CHARLES KNIGHT, ANTONIA CHAYES, CATHERINE LUTZ, EUGENE A. CARROLL, RANDALL FORSBERG, AND ELLEN WILLIS. ELAINE SCARRY REPLIES. Essays Victims for the Prosecution Why a survivor of a terrorist bombing refused to testify Susan […]
Summer 2002
Forum Reclaiming the Commons WHY WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR PUBLIC RESOURCES FROM PRIVATE ENCROACHMENT DAVID BOLLIER RESPONSES FROM MARCIA ANGELL, ROBERT W. MCCHENSEY, TOM G. PALMER, NICHOLAS JOHNSON, JEFF CHESTER, AND GARY O. LARSON, RICHARD D. PARKER, RICHARD STALLMAN, AND MARGARET KOHN. DAVID BOLLIER REPLIES. Essays Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual An epochal […]
April/May 2002
Crime and Punishment The Legacies of Collective Violence The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law Helena Cobban Policing Disorder Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses? Bernard Harcourt Deadly Symbiosis Rethinking race and imprisonment in America Loïc Wacquant Fiction One Last Thing Ryan G. Van Cleave New Fiction Forum High Art in […]
February/March 2002
Forum Can Working Families Ever Win? HELPING PARENTS SUCCEED AT WORK AND CAREGIVING JODY HEYMANN RESPONSES FROM JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN, ANNE ALSTOTT, JOAN TRONTO, JAMES P. COMER, THEDA SKOCPOL, LOTTE BAILYN, WILLIAM A. GALSTON, SUSAN MOLLER OKIN, KAREN NUSSBAUM, ISABELLE FERRERAS, THOMAS A. KOCHAN, MYRA MARX FERREE, BRADLEY GOOGINS, JODI GRANT, AND FRANCES FOX PIVEN. […]
December 2001/January 2002
Forum The Case for Binationalism WHY ONE STATE—LIBERAL AND CONSTITUTIONALIST—MAY BE THE KEY TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST LAMA ABU-ODEH RESPONSES FROM HELENA COBBAN, LEONARD FEIN, LOUIS MICHAEL SEIDMAN, IAN S. LUSTICK, EBRAHIM MOOSA, EFRAIM KARSH, JEROME M. SEGAL, AND SALIM TAMARI. LAMA ABU-ODEH REPLIES. Essays The Place of Tolerance in Islam On reading […]
October/November 2001
Forum Machine Politics CHANGING THE WAY WE VOTE IS MORE URGENT—AND LESS COMPLICATED—THAN YOU THINK STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE RESPONSES FROM LLOYD CUTLER & ROBERT MICHEL, ROGERS M. SMITH, DONNA BRAZILE, DAVID C. KING, DANIEL R. ORTIZ, E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ, ROBERT RICHIE, HEATHER GERKEN, MICKEY EDWARDS, MARC STRASSMAN, AND ROBERT RICHIE. STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE REPLIES. Interview What’s Wrong […]
Summer 2001
Forum Is the Internet Bad for Democracy? THE DANGERS OF INFINITE PERSONALIZATION CASS SUNSTEIN RESPONSES FROM AY ROSEN, SIMON GARFINKEL, MICHAEL SCHUDSON, RONALD N. JACOBS, SHANTO IYENGAR, HENRY JENKINS AND ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY. CASS SUNSTEIN REPLIES. Essays Nationalism in Exile Following the political dreams of refugee communities John Tirman Becoming Literature James Merrill’s poetry of […]
April/May 2001
Forum Faith in Politics? WHY BLACK AMERICA NEEDS A NEW POLITICS—AND HOW THE BLACK CHURCH MIGHT DELIVER ONE EVA T. THORNE AND EUGENE F. RIVERS III RESPONSES FROM LANI GUINIER, CATHY J. COHEN, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, RONALD J. SIDER, ALAN WOLFE, JULIANNE MALVEAUX, ELLEN WILLIS, PETER DREIER, AND MANNING MARABLE. THORNE AND RIVERS REPLY. Essays […]
February/March 2001
Forum Stepping Up Labor Standards HOW TRANSPARENCY, COMPETITION, AND SANCTIONS COULD IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS WORLDWIDE ARCHON FUNG, DARA O’ROURKE, AND CHARLES SABEL RESPONSES FROM ROBIN BROAD, PRANAB BARDHAN, MARK LEVINSON, KAUSHIK BASU, DAVID MOBERG, HEATHER WHITE, GUY STANDING, AND IAN AYRES. FUNG, O’ROURKE, AND SABEL REPLY. Essay Happy World What Lyn Hejinian’s poetry tells us […]
