Politics

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

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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

The Personal Is Not the Political

More than two decades after her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt has emerged as the political theorist of the post-totalitarian moment.

  • Seyla Benhabib

The New Politics of Consumption

Somebody needs to be for quality of life, not just quantity of stuff.

  • Juliet B. Schor
with responses from
  • Robert H. Frank
  • James Twitchell
  • Jack Gibbons
  • Clair Brown
  • Betsy Taylor
  • Douglas B. Holt
  • Craig J. Thompson
  • Michèle Lamont & Virág Molnár
  • Lawrence Mishel & Jared Bernstein & John Schmitt

The Two Hundred Years War

The origins of conflict in Yugoslavia. 

  • G. M. Tamás

Identity Politics

Forced deportations threaten to turn the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war.

  • Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

From Utopia to Myopia

How the aesthetic pose crippled political thinking.

  • Russell Jacoby

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Eva T. Thorne

Review: Books on Euthanasia

Two new collections of essays contribute to the public debate—with varied results.

  • Jyl Gentzler

Banishing the Specter of War

How early warning and early action can prevent the escalation of disputes into armed violence.

  • Randall Forsberg
  • Jonathan Dean
  • Saul Mendlovitz
with responses from
  • Kosta Tsipis
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Alan Cranston
  • Lora Lumpe
  • Randall Forsberg

Review: The Color of Truth

By Kai Bird.

  • Jeff Jones

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

  • Jeff Gates
with responses from
  • Sewin Chan & Henry Schneider & Joseph Tracy
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • William H. Simon

Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

  • John Tirman

Development—but at What Cost?

An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).

  • Shiv Visvanathan
  • Jay Mandle

The Immigrant as Pariah

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Jennifer Gordon
  • Ulrich Preuss
  • Iris M. Young
  • Robin West
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Myron Weiner
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Muzaffar Chishti

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”

  • Cass Sunstein

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul
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