Politics

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

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On Post-Fascism

Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.

  • G. M. Tamás

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos

  • Kieko Matteson
  • Robert Perkinson

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

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

Review: The Twilight of the Intellectuals

  • George Scialabba

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

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

On that tragic Saturday, only his body was smashed.

  • Diego Gambetta

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

Nonfiction Microreviews

Summer 1999

When Rights Are Wrong

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan
with responses from
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Joel F. Handler
  • Carol S. Steiker
  • Wesley G. Skogan
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Franklin E. Zimring
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Paul Farley
  • Richard H. Pildes

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

On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

  • Paul W. Kahn
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