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Taking Faith Seriously

Contempt for religion costs Democrats more than votes.

  • Michael Gecan

American Salvation

The place of Christianity in public life.

  • Albert J. Raboteau

Losing Faith

The Democrats called, but they didn’t call back.

  • Ari Lipman

Truth in Numbers

Moral values and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III

Hungry for Air

Learning the language of torture.

  • Deborah Stone

The Blemish of Conquest

Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?

  • Martin van Creveld

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The Good Empire

Should we pick up where the British left off?

  • Vivek Chibber

Cold War Casualties

How our claim of victory distorts American foreign policy.

  • Neta C. Crawford

American Soup

The basic principle of Samuel Huntington’s patriotism: never recognize that anything of substance comes from somewhere besides Anglo-Protestantanism.

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Iraq’s Chaos

Why the insurgency won't go away.

  • Ahmed S. Hashim

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

  • Colin Dayan

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

How Can the Democrats Win?

Democrats must embrace an economic liberalism superjumbo, and they must stick with it even if they lose.

  • Rick Perlstein
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Adolph Reed Jr.
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Dan Carol
  • Daniel Cantor
  • Robert B. Reich
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Elaine Kamarck
  • Richard Delgado
  • Stanley Aronowitz
  • Philip Klinker
  • Larry M. Bartels

Letters

Reason and Terror

Has 9/11 made it hard to think straight?

  • Diego Gambetta

What We Owe to Parents

How public policy can support the hard work of raising children
 

  • Anne L. Alstott

Endgame

Conservatives after the Cold War.

  • Corey Robin

Resolving to Resist

Local governments are refusing to comply with the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry

Revolutionary Consent

What the public life of American colonists can teach us about politics.

  • Barbara Clark Smith

Letters from Chomsky and Galbraith on JFK and Vietnam

An exchange.

  • Noam Chomsky
  • James K. Galbraith

Believing in America

An intellectual project and a national ideal.

  • Leo Marx

The Reptile Within

Lessons from the California recall.

  • Marc B. Haefele

Letters

December 2003/January 2004

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky
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