Forum
Regime Change Doesn’t Work
Alexander B. Downes — with responses from:
GREG GRANDIN, JOSEPH S. NYE, JR., NETA C. CRAWFORD, JAMES D. FEARON, MARY KALDOR, JOHN TIRMAN, TOD LINDBERG, AND JOANNE LANDY.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Railroad Blues
Jonathan Rodden and Jowei Chen
Dispatch: A Little Help
David William Turner
Dispatch: Straight Shooter
Matt Gallagher
Art Note: Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent
Roger Boylan
Perspective: Extreme Injury
Elaine Scarry
Unfair Advantages
Joseph Nevins
Wronged Without Recourse
Jessica Garrick, Andrew Schrank
Palestinians Ambivalent About Statehood Bid
Mya Guarnieri
What Would Emma Do?
An interview with Vivian Gornick
Libertarianism and Liberty
T. M. Scanlon
What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank
Francine McKenna
Revaluing the Book
An interview with Richard Nash
Freedom Is a Way of Life: The Arab Summer in Tunisia
Josh Martin
American Autumn: Protest Groups bring the Arab Spring to the U.S.
Nathan Schneider
The Constructive Responsibility of Intellectuals
Archon Fung
Why I Was Maced at Occupy Wall Street
Jeanne Mansfield
Karlan’s Court: Sometimes An Amendment Is Just An Amendment
Pamela S. Karlan
Special Report
End of the Road: Al Qaeda’s Fall
Fawaz A. Gerges
Context
The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux: Using Privilege to Challenge Power
Noam Chomsky
Books & Ideas
My Hungry Soul: Alfred Kazin’s Raw Materials
Vivian Gornick
Bugger Off: Spying Online Is Perilous and Unnecessary
Evgeny Morozov
Fiction
Thirty Seconds From Now
John Chu
On Film
Imagining Faith: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Lauren Jensen, introduced by Erika Meitner
Gone Missing: Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Metropole
David Gorin
In From The Cold: Milosz and Brodsky’s Productive Exile
Alissa Valles
Microreviews
Poems
After Battle
Karen Lepri
The Rock In Mid-Lake Disappears & I Who Might
Jeanne Larsen
Lottery
Anis Shivani
October
Joseph Fasano
Of Late Fashion
Scott Provence
Used-To Lives On
C. J. Sage
Soup Is One Form Of Salt Water
Heather Christle
Yes
Anthony Opal