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Summer 2007
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
Bush's Murphy's Law (and Other Presidential Evolutions) Mitchell Cohen
Comments and Opinions
Guns and Grief Lillian B. Rubin
Politics Abroad
Genocide Without End? The Destruction of Darfur Eric Reeves
Multiculturalism and Democracy Shalom Lappin
Justice Denied in Bosnia Courtney Angela Brkic
Articles
Why Aren't U.S. Cities Burning? Michael B. Katz
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.
Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Squeezing Public Education: History and Ideology Gang Up in New Orleans Ralph Adamo
Universal Health Insurance 2007: Can We Learn From the Past? Theodore Marmor
No Refuge Here: Iraqis Flee, but Where? Joseph Huff-Hannon
How to Tax the Rich—And Live Happily Ever After Robin Blackburn
Notebook
A Non-Zionist Reflects on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Eugene Goodheart
Who Named the Neocons? Benjamin Ross
Books
Choosing Sides: On Nick Cohen's What's Left? Johann Hari
What's Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen
Globalization's Mad Scientist: On Joseph Stiglitz Mark Engler
Books discussed: The Rebel Within: Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank, ed. by Ha-joon Chang; Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Is There Still a South? And Does it Matter? Dan T. Carter
Books discussed: The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South, by Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston; Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics by Earl Black and Merle Black; Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller; The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter; White Flite: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Road to Socialism Maurice Isserman
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson
Root Causes and Rotten Ideas: On Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home Charles Taylor
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 by Dinesh D'Souza
No Laughing Matter: Martin Amis takes on the Gulag David Marcus
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
The Last Page
When is a Life Worth Writing About? Matt Moore