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Spring 2007
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
Grim, But Hopeful Michael Walzer
Comments & Opinions
Can the Populist Moment Last? Benjamin Ross
Killing Tyrants Michael Walzer
Gay Marriage: The Third Option Murray Hausknecht
Politics Abroad
‘I Was Sick During the Genocide’: Remembering to Forget in Contemporary Rwanda Christine Stansell
From Marx to Confucius: Changing Discourses on China’s Political Future Daniel A. Bell
The Russian Conundrum: Growing Economy, Failing Society Federico Varese
Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save the Middle East? Carlos Fraenkel
Symposium: Exporting Democracy
Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq? The Editors
Daniele Archibugi Response Daniele Archibugi
Ofra Bengio Response Ofra Bengio
Seyla Benhabib Response Seyla Benhabib
Paul Berman Response Paul Berman
Mitchell Cohen Response Mitchell Cohen
Thomas Cushman Response Thomas Cushman
John Lister Response John Lister
Shibley Telhami Response Shibley Telhami
Articles
Moving Left? Bush’s Decline and American Liberalism Ruy Teixeira
Labor and the New Congress: A Strategy for Winning Nelson Lichtenstein
Work in Progress: The State of the Unions Two Years after the AFL-CIO Split Jim McNeill
Is Socialism Liberal? Democracy and French Socialist Ideas Marc Sadoun
Arguments
Further Beyond the 'M' Word: A Response to Arlene Skolnick E. Kay Trimberger
A response to Arlene Skolnick's article, Beyond the 'M' Word: The Tangled Web of Politics and Marriage in the Fall 2006 issue.
Arlene Skolnick Replies to E. Kay Trimberger Arlene Skolnick
Notebook
Art Meets Politics: How Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party Came to Brooklyn Gail Levin
Photography After the Flood Nicolaus Mills
Robert Polidori's photographs of New Orleans.
Books
Pragmatist Hope Casey Nelson Blake
Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth by Robert B. Westbrook, and Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty, Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
The Weatherman Temptation Jon Wiener
Books discussed: Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta; American Woman by Susan Choi; The Darling by Russell Banks; The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon.
The Other Side of the Mountain Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Michael K. Honey's Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King’s Last Campaign
Last Page
The 'Usefully Dangerous' Economist Mark Levinson
Online Features
Carl Shier (1918-2007) David Bensman and Harold Meyerson
Dissent editorial board members remembers Carl Shier.
Against Academic Boycotts Martha Nussbaum
On May 30, Britain's 120,000-strong University and College Union voted to endorse a call to boycott Israeli universities. Martha Nussbaum in a forthcoming Summer 2007 article (now featured online) argues against all forms of the academic boycott.
From the Archives: Israel after the Six Day War Stanley Plastrik
This summer marks the fortieth year since the Six Day War. Dissent looked into its archives and found a prescient article from our March-April 1968 issue, "Israel Now: A Few Questions," where Stanley Plastrik contemplated the still unresolved deadlock over land and recognition.
China Then and Now: Tiananmen Revisited The Editors
Eighteen years have passed since the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square and China, now home to the world's largest growing economy, is a vastly different place. Dissent looked into its archives to see what its editors and contributors had to say in the summer and fall of 1989.
New Orleans after the Flood: 6539 Canal Street Robert Polidori
New Orleans after the Flood: 5417 Marigny Street Robert Polidori
New Orleans after the Flood: 5417 Marigny Street #2 Robert Polidori
New Orleans after the Flood: 5000 Cartier Avenue Robert Polidori
New Orleans after the Flood: 5323 St. Anthony Ave Robert Polidori