Winter 2010

Table of Contents

Editor's Page
Internationalism
By Michael Walzer
From Democratiya to Dissent
By Alan Johnson
Comments & Opinions
Choice as Strategy: Homosexuality and the Politics of Pity
By Stephanie Fairyington
Cars, Highways, and the Poor
By Yonah Freemark
Politics Abroad
Lessons from the Nationalization Nation: State-Owned Enterprises in France
By Paul Cohen
Jerusalem: Going for the Gold
By Jo-Ann Mort
Symposium: Intellectuals and Their America
Intellectuals and Their America
By Editors
Symposium: E. J. Dionne, Jr.
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Symposium: Alice Kessler-Harris
By Alice Kessler-Harris
Symposium: Jackson Lears
By Jackson Lears
Symposium: Martha Nussbaum
By Martha Nussbaum
Symposium: Katha Pollitt
By Katha Pollitt
Symposium: Michael Tomasky
By Michael Tomasky
Symposium: Katrina vanden Heuvel
By Katrina vanden Heuvel
Symposium: Leon Wieseltier
By Leon Wieseltier
Articles
Alinsky for the Left: The Politics of Community Organizing
By Mike Miller
Rock the Senate!
By Jamie Raskin
The Death of Beatrice: Reflections on Old Age in America
By Michael B. Katz
Traveling with the Dog: Greyhound and American Journeys
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
New Deal Denialism
By Eric Rauchway
Reconsiderations
Richard Rorty in Retrospect
By Richard Wolin
Arguments
The Military State of America and the Democratic Left
By James B. Rule
Response by George Packer
By George Packer
Response by Michael Walzer
By Michael Walzer
Reply by James B. Rule
By James B. Rule
Reconciling Socialism and Confucianism? Reviving Tradition in China
By Daniel A. Bell
Response by Michael Walzer
By Michael Walzer
Reply by Daniel A. Bell
By Daniel A. Bell
Notebook
Violence as the Best Revenge: Fantasies of Dead Nazis
By Charles Taylor
Books
Kirstin Downey’s The Woman Behind the New Deal
By Robert J.S. Ross
Morris Dickstein’s Dancing in the Dark
By Kevin Mattson
Last Page
Saving the Lowercase
By Kate Hahn