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Spring 1996
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
Editor's Page Michael Walzer
Comments and Opinions
Progressive Taxation Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prisoners of Misleading Facts Peter Dreier and Jeffrey Reiman
Hype or History? How Feminists Find Hope Ruth Rosen
GATTCHA! GATT and the Erosion of Labor Rights and Environmental Standards Peter Laarman
Politics Abroad
The Search for Europe; Czechs Drawn to Two Traditions Erazin Kohák
Of Mountains and Mice: The French Strikes of 1995 Stephen Bornstein and Peirre-Eric Tixier
Cuba: Ideology Meets Globalization Román de la Campa
Articles
Underpaid Workers, Bloated Corporation; Two Pieces in the Puzzle of U.S. Economic Decline David M. Gordon
Promoting Democracy in a Postmodern World Thomas Carothers
Prostitution and the Case for Decriminalization Laurie Shrage
Why Health Care Reform Failed Michael Tomasky
The Reals Costs of Education Richard Rothstein
A Tale of Two School Systems: Funding in the United States and Italy Chiara R. Nappi
Troubled Times for Public Higher Education Larry Hanley
Special Section: Race & Politics
Colin Powell: A Flight from Power? Martin Kilson
Turning Inward: Black Organizations Regain Importance David J. Garrow
Farrakhan's Middle Class Revival Comes to Howard Phillip M. Richards
Holding Hands: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South Carol Stack
Arguments
Why We Need an Independent Politics and How to Build It Joel Rogers
Why We Need an Independent Politics and How to Build It: Replies Michael Kazin
Nationalism Near and Far James B. Rule
Nationalism Near and Far: Replies Mitchell Cohen
Reconsiderations
Sheila Rowbotham's Feminism: Women's consciousness, Man's World Jo-Ann Mort
Magazines
The Problem with the Baffler David Glenn
Books
Sins of the Overclass: The Next American Nation Richard Rorty
The Gloomsayer: Neo-Conservatism the Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol Alan Ryan
Border Crossing; Raymond Williams by Fred Inglis Stefan Collini
Labour's Economics; The State We're In by Will Hutton, Jonathan Cape John Eatwell
Letters
Letters to the Editor Mills, Gitlin, Kazin, Foner
Last Page
The Last Page Nicolaus Mills