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Arts in Society

What Can Be Known

  • Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman
Law Politics

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

  • Helena Cobban
Arts in Society

Repercussions of the Current Import/Export Ratio

Winner of the 2009 Discovery Contest.

  • Jynne Dilling Martin
Arts in Society

2009 Discovery Poetry Contest Winners

Jynne Dilling Martin, Jeffrey Schultz, Bridget Lowe, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo.

  • Boston Review
Arts in Society

J. Steals from the Rich and Uses the Money to Get Drunk Again

Winner of the 2009 Discovery Contest.

  • Jeffrey Schultz
Arts in Society

The Wild Boy of Aveyron Stands Up During a Dinner Arranged by the Doctor

Winner of the 2009 Discovery Poetry Contest.

  • Bridget Lowe

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Arts in Society

Bright Burial

Winner of the 2009 Discovery Poetry Contest.

  • Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo
Law Politics

The Case for Amnesty

Time erodes the state’s right to deport.

  • Joseph H. Carens
with responses from
  • Mae M. Ngai
  • Roberto Suro
  • Marc R. Rosenblum
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Eamonn Callan
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Linda Bosniak
  • Mary Lyndon Shanley
  • Rainer Bauböck
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Douglas S. Massey
  • Gara LaMarche
  • Carol M. Swain
  • Arash Abizadeh
  • Peter H. Schuck
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Law Philosophy Politics

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics Race

State of the Nation: Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis

When it comes to the financial crisis, Democrats are especially prone to blaming Jews

  • Neil Malhotra
  • Yotam Margalit
Class & Inequality Race

No Ordinary Success

How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods?

  • James Forman, Jr.
Class & Inequality Science

Malpractice

When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.

  • Dean Baker
Class & Inequality Science

Accidental Billionaire

How do we decide what is individual talent and what is luck?

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics

God’s Work

What can faith-based activism do for labor?

  • Nancy MacLean
Arts in Society

House of Men

A short story.

  • Shivani Manghnani
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality

Purple Gaze

In the City of Sylvia

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

The New Thing

The object lessons of recent American poetry.

  • Stephanie Burt
Arts in Society

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson's For All We Know.

  • Piotr Florczyk
Arts in Society

[It’s not true that the world is an unending return]

Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska

  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Arts in Society

After Wang Ximeng’s Blue and Green Horizontal Landscape Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Sze

  • Xi Chuan
  • Arthur Sze
Arts in Society

Mayflower Compact

  • Mark Walston
Arts in Society

Cotton Mather Preaches on Satan

  • Mark Walston
Arts in Society

Homecoming Dance

  • Jess Sauer
Arts in Society

Evaporation 2

  • Forrest Gander
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