Politics

The People v. Judicial Activism

Who has the last word on the Constitution?

  • Larry Kramer

Revolutionary Consent

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

  • Barbara Clark Smith

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen

Common Ground

An immigration crisis in the European Union.

  • Michael Standaert

The Chosen People

Rather than apologizing for the Jewish tradition or putting it on a pedestal, The Jewish Political Tradition stresses its living and agonistic character.

  • Hilary Putnam

A Mostly Irish Farce

A farce is a powerful force

  • Roger Boylan

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Letters from Chomsky and Galbraith on JFK and Vietnam

An exchange.

  • Noam Chomsky
  • James K. Galbraith

The Wrong Lessons

The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope.

  • Alex de Waal

Healing Rwanda

Can an international court deliver justice?

  • Helena Cobban

Exporting Democracy

The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova.

  • Ralph Cintron
  • Stevan Weine
  • Ferid Agani

The New Humanitarianism

How military intervention became the norm.

  • John Tirman

Believing in America

An intellectual project and a national ideal.

  • Leo Marx

The Reptile Within

Lessons from the California recall.

  • Marc B. Haefele

The End of Sociology?

The tradition by which public intellectuals hope to resurrect sociology asks compelling questions

  • John H. Summers

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky

Exit Strategy

In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.

  • James K. Galbraith

Just Marriage

American conservatives pride themselves on moral clarity—and nowhere greater than on the topic of marriage and family.

  • Mary Lyndon Shanley

Still Blaming the Victim

In Young, Gifted, and Black, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III do not address the deep structural inequalities that are the chief causes of the achievement gap.

  • Charles R. Lawrence, III

Iran’s Other Religion

The birthplace of Zarathustianism.

  • Jehangir Pocha

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

  • Susie Linfield

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

The Hard Road to Fascism

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

  • Abbott Gleason

The Secret History of the Magna Carta

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

  • Peter Linebaugh

Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer
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