Politics

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual

America’s “new war” reflects an epochal change in the nature of collective violence.

  • Charles Tilly

Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban

Policing Disorder

Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?

  • Bernard E. Harcourt

South Park

New-economy drivel leaves a San Francisco neighborhood high and dry.

  • Neil Shister

Review: Crossing Over

Reporting from the border zones. 

  • Scott Saul

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The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur’an.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • Amina Wadud
  • John L. Esposito
  • Sohail H. Hashmi

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

How we can ensure economic security for all Americans

  • J. Larry Brown
  • Larry W. Beeferman

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

  • Joshua Cohen

Why the Right Wins

Two books tell compatible tales of two smallish groupings that made history move.

  • Todd Gitlin

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Lani Guinier
  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Ronald J. Sider
  • Alan Wolfe
  • Julianne Malveaux
  • Ellen Willis
  • Peter Dreier
  • Manning Marable

No Revolution Without Counterrevolution

On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.

  • Corey Robin

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

  • Erik Olin Wright
  • Rachel Dwyer

Ethics and Equality

Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live.

  • Stuart White

The Liberal Intelligence

Lionel Trilling was not a neoconservative. He was the very best kind of liberal.

  • George Scialabba

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

Moving Out of the Ghetto

The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Robert Coles
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Gary Orfield
  • James E. Rosenbaum
  • Alexander Polikoff

On Post-Fascism

Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.

  • G. M. Tamás

Eliminating the Danger

What can we do to prevent a nuclear catastrophe?

  • Boston Review
with responses from
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence S. Wittner
  • Vladislav M. Zubok
  • Jonathan Schell
  • Sergey Rogov

Educating a Democracy

The demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.

  • Deborah Meier
with responses from
  • Abigail Thernstrom
  • Bob Chase
  • Gary B. Nash
  • Linda Nathan
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Bill Ayers
  • Theodore Sizer

Real Tax Reform

The case for a progressive consumption tax

  • Edward J. McCaffery

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

The United States is in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of its environmental regulation, one that is as improbable as it is unremarked.

  • Charles Sabel
  • Bradley Karkkainen
  • Archon Fung
with responses from
  • Matt Wilson & Eric Weltman
  • Daniel J. Fiorino
  • Theodore J. Lowi
  • DeWitt John
  • Jacqueline Savitz
  • Lawrence Susskind
  • Daniel A. Farber
  • Jason F. Shogren
  • Cass Sunstein
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