Because al-Qaeda’s ideology is rooted in an extreme version of Islam, post-September 11 discourse has focused mostly on ways that Islam may, in certain circumstances, give rise to bin Laden-like phenomena. This sort of approach is both facile and wrong, …
“I want to talk as a philosopher today—a practical and engaged philosopher. I won’t argue for particular policies, but I also won’t remain at the level of abstract principles. If philosophy is to engage with politics, it had better be …
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
The argument seems easy: the International Criminal Court represents a significant step toward a global rule of law, and the United States should be part of it. That’s ultimately right, but the argument is more complicated, and there are political …
Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
I begin with two quotations from members of the Supreme Court itself. The first was written by Felix Frankfurter some seventy years ago: “[M]embers of the court are frequently admonished by their associates not to read their economic and social …
The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970 by Kevin Mattson
Do Americans “by nature” know how one becomes a “naturalized” American? To become a citizen is far from ordinary in today’s Western countries. Democratic founding is a privilege of the first generation, which binds the next and establishes the political …
“Children and economists,” Robert Lekachman once said, “may think that the men at the head of our great corporations spend their time thinking about new ways to please the customers or improve the efficiency of their factories and offices.” After …
The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina,and Mexico by Judith A. Teichman and Managing Mexico by Sarah Babb
Last January, Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national of Moroccan descent, pleaded “not guilty” in Virginia federal court to six counts of conspiring to commit acts of international terrorism in connection with the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the …
Something’s busy dyin’, but is anything being born? The age of market extremism, as Kevin Phillips has termed it, is shuddering to a halt, undone, as in all its previous incarnations, by its own excesses. The shift in public opinion …
Since Hippocrates, providers and seekers of medical care have sought to protect the confidentiality of their communications. Medicine has probably done better than most professions in realizing such aspirations—at least until the last few decades. But by the end of …
Th Changing Grassroots Left in Latin America
Casino Capitalism and Lemon Socialism
