Spring 2011

Table of Contents

Editor's Page
From Cairo to Madison
By Michael Kazin
Politics Abroad
The Hungarian Tragedy
By Jan-Werner Müller
Learning from the French Left: Lessons of the Pension Reform Battle
By Jean-Christian Vinel
Extending a Hand in Myanmar
By Ian Holliday
American Jews and Israel
Introduction
By Michael Walzer
Symposium: Todd Gitlin
By Todd Gitlin
Symposium: Sarah Leonard
By Sarah Leonard
Symposium: Jo-Ann Mort
By Jo-Ann Mort
Symposium: Judith Shulevitz
By Judith Shulevitz
Re-Imagining Education Reform
Introduction
By Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose
The Mismeasure of Teaching and Learning: How Contemporary School Reform Fails the Test
By Mike Rose
Free-Market Think Tanks and the Marketing of Education Policy
By Kevin G. Welner
Articles
Convenient Scapegoat: Public Workers under Assault
By Joseph A. McCartin
Has the U.S. Left Made a Difference?
By Michael Kazin
“If you are an egalitarian, why do you send your children to private school?”
By Margaret Kohn
A Nation of (Deported) Immigrants
By Adam Goodman
Paying the Piper: Is Culture Ever Free?
By Kevin Mattson
Reconsiderations
Dead or Alive at Fifty? Reading Jane Jacobs on her Golden Anniversary
By Christopher Klemek
Daniel Bell and The End of Ideology
By John Summers
Books
Phantasms of Revolution
By Susie Linfield
The Politics of Inequality
By Mark Levinson
Survivors’ History
By Vadim Nikitin
Studying the Fault Lines
By Samuel Moyn
An Unlikely Pragmatist
By Jim Sleeper
Last Page
Egypt: Graveyard of Empire
By Feisal G. Mohamed