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Winter 2008
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
Both Eyes Open Mitchell Cohen
Comments & Opinions
Fire and Flood: What a Difference Class and Race Make, or Did Brian Williams See the News? Lillian B. Rubin
Politics Abroad
Asia Looms over Latin America Forrest D. Colburn
Health Care in Taiwan: Why Can’t the United States Learn Some Lessons? Ian Williams
“We, the Jury . . .”
We, the Jury... The Editors
Joanne Barkan, Paul Berman, Susan Cheever, Nicolaus Mills, Maxine Phillips, Ruth Rosen, Jim Sleeper, Michael Walzer, and Darryl Lorrenzo Wellington report from the field.
Luck of the Draw Joanne Barkan
Losing Sleep Susan Cheever
See You in Six Years Nicolaus Mills
Chosen by Default Maxine Phillips
Democracy in Action Ruth Rosen
Daily Life and the Jury System Jim Sleeper
Waiting to Serve Michael Walzer
The Alternate's Perspective Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Style and Passion in Tocqueville Paul Berman
Articles
Sectarianism Avishai Margalit
Anti-Semitism and the Left that Doesn’t Learn Mitchell Cohen
Private Equity and Public Good Stephen F. Diamond
Beyond Discrimination: Understanding African American Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Michael B. Katz & Mark J. Stern
Growth and Inequality: Understanding Recent Trends and Political Choices Thomas Pogge
C’mon Everybody: Will Music Bring Us Together? Barry Gewen
Reconsiderations
Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Hayek? The Obvious Truths and Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right Jesse Larner
Arguments
Employers and Domestic Workers: A Confucian Approach Daniel A. Bell
Sin-Yee Chan Responds to Daniel A. Bell Sin-Yee Chan
Daniel A. Bell Replies Daniel A. Bell
Notebook
The “Duke” and Democracy: On John Wayne Charles Taylor
Books
Heated Conversations Christine Stansell
Katha Pollitt's Learning to Drive.
History, Amnesia, and the N Word Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why by Jabari Asim, and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy.
Traveling Light Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Memory as Homeland David Marcus
George Konrád's A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life and The City Builder.
Recent and Forthcoming Books by Dissent Editors Editors
The Last Page
The Israeli-Palestinian Marketplace Jo-Ann Mort