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The Hard Road to Fascism

Today’s antiliberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe.

  • Abbott Gleason
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The Secret History of the Magna Carta

Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember.

  • Peter Linebaugh
Law Politics

Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer
Arts in Society

Situationist Noir

Reading Jean-Patrick Manchette.

  • Jennifer Howard
Philosophy Politics

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • John L. Esposito
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Noah Feldman
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • M.A. Muqtedar Khan
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Saba Mahmood
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Bernard Haykel
  • William B. Quandt
Law Politics

Weapons of Mass Confusion

The new emphasis on WMDs has not been accompanied by any serious public discussion of the differences among such weapons.

  • Owen R. Cote, Jr.

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Politics

The Blame Game

Almost unanimously, Democrats and liberals are pointing the finger at third-party candidate, Ralph Nader. 

  • George Scialabba
Arts in Society

City Poems

Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project.

  • Maureen N. McLane
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A Wrong Thing

A short story. 

  • A.L. Kennedy
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New Pioneers of the American Short Story

Marshall Boswell and Elizabeth Crane.

  • Tom Bissell
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A Dutchman with Very Dark Eyes and Hair You Could Call Raven-black

Writing Duke of Egypt.

  • Margriet de Moor

Nonfiction Microreviews

April/May 2003

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New Poets on the Block

A roundup of first and second books.

  • Stephanie Burt
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The Poet at War

The Invasion Handbook by Tom Paulin. 

  • Benjamin Paloff
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Taking Measurements of Will and Circumstance

Two new collections from Garrett Kalleberg.

  • Fred Muratori
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Microreviews: April/May 2003

Thirteen new poetry collections.

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You Can Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days

  • Calvin Bedient
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from Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs

  • Mark Bibbins
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Matelot Turnstile

  • Margaret Funkhouser
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Momentary Gardens

  • Claire Hero
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Unrelenting

  • Joan Houlihan
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Sea by Dusk

  • Joanna Klink
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America: Before the Last War

  • Peter Jay Shippy
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Seattle, Third and Pike

  • Liz Waldner
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