Philosophy

Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

  • Elaine Scarry
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Paul W. Kahn
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Charles Knight
  • Antonia Chayes
  • Catherine Lutz
  • Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Ellen Willis

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

A moral defense.

  • F. M. Kamm

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

  • Richard Eldridge

Unnatural Sentences

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.

  • Brenda Wineapple

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

  • William A. Dembski
  • H. Allen Orr

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A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

  • H. Allen Orr

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

  • Hugo Adam Bedau

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

Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

Emerging technologies increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.

  • Cass Sunstein
with responses from
  • Jay Rosen
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Michael Schudson
  • Ronald N. Jacobs
  • Shanto Iyengar
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Robert W. McChesney

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

Down on Law

On Carl Schmitt, Germany’s most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

  • William E. Scheuerman

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

  • Marjorie Perloff

Ethics and Equality

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

  • Stuart White

The Sound of Philosophy

Milton Babbitt and John Cage. 

  • Dmitri Tymoczko

On Post-Fascism

Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.

  • G. M. Tamás

Is Privacy Bad for Women?

What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

The Sublime Beethoven

What the composer and Kant had in common.

  • Dmitri Tymoczko

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

  • H. Allen Orr

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

From Utopia to Myopia

How the aesthetic pose crippled political thinking.

  • Russell Jacoby

Is Equality in Our Nature?

Pessimism about a selfish electorate is fundamentally misdirected.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis
with responses from
  • Martin Gilens
  • Robert Haveman
  • Philippe Van Parijs
  • Steven M. Teles
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • David Sloan Wilson
  • Steven N. Durlauf
  • Nancy Folbre
  • Stuart White
  • Kristen Monroe
  • Susan E. Mayer
  • Kevin McCabe & Vernon Smith

Microreviews

December 1998/January 1999

The Big Picture

A review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E. O. Wilson.

  • H. Allen Orr
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