Fall 2012 | Dissent Magazine

The College Issue

Fall 2012

Table of Contents

Editor's Page

Is America Ready for Democracy?

By Michael Walzer

The College Issue

By Nick Serpe

The Corporatization of Higher Education
By Nicolaus Mills

From Master Plan to No Plan: The Slow Death of Public Higher Education
By Aaron Bady and Mike Konczal

The Rise and Fall of the American Linguistic Empire
By Paul Cohen

With Friends Like These…Who Will Defend Liberal Education?

By Jim Sleeper

When Universities Go Abroad: NYU in Abu Dhabi

By Linda Gordon

Grad Students to the Barricades
By Gabriel Winant

Second-Chance Collegians: Inside the Remedial Classroom

By Mike Rose

Articles

Europe’s Perfect Storm: The Political and Economic Consequences of the Eurocrisis

By Jan-Werner Müller

The Horizontalists
By David Marcus

Citizenship and the Right to Birth Control

By Linda Gordon

Arguments

Israel: The Great Disconnect

By James B. Rule

Michael Walzer Responds

By Michael Walzer

James B. Rule Replies

By James B. Rule

Books

Zionism and Its Discontents
By Susie Linfield

Big Dollar, Little Democracy

By Jeff Faux

Narratives of Inequality

By John Schmitt

The War Against Social Security

By Nancy J. Altman

Can We All Get Along?

By Jeffrey Scheuer

The Last Page

By Maxine Phillips