Summer 2011 | Dissent Magazine

Summer 2011

Table of Contents

Editor's Page

How Shall We Support Democracy?

By Michael Walzer

Politics Abroad

Sandmonkey: “Too Stupid to Govern Us”

By Todd Gitlin

Re-Imagining Education Reform

Targeting Teachers

By David Labaree

The Price of Human Capital

By Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe

Articles

Dangerous Worlds: Teaching Film in Prison
By Ann Snitow

The Meaning of Patriotism in 1789

By David Bromwich

Achieving Global and Local Justice

By Michael Walzer

Party of the Future

Introduction: Not-So-Innocents Abroad
By Nicolaus Mills

CouchSurfing
By Sarah Leonard

To Krakow and Back
By Rafael Khachaturian

Durzay Area, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
By Sam Jacobson

Return to Tehran
By Sabina Amidi

Faith in the Rubble
By Gabrielle Apollon

The Long Haul
By Julie Michelle Klinger

Women Take the Field
By Leslie McAbee

Arguments

Politics’ Fatal Therapeutic Turn
By Zelda Bronstein

Marshall Ganz Responds
By Marshall Ganz

Zelda Bronstein Replies
By Zelda Bronstein

Against Religious Freedom

By Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske

William Galston Responds

By William Galston

Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske Reply

By Austin Dacey and Colin Koproske

Reconsiderations

Battleship Potemkin and Beyond

By Morris Dickstein

Notebook

Four Myths About Teachers

By Ilana Garon

Books

Iron Horse and Gilded Age
By Gary Gerstle

The Problem That Had No Name

By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Young, Rebellious, and White

By Kevin Mattson

Last Page

Against Reading E-mail

By Anonymous