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December 1998/January 1999

About the contributors


New Democracy Forum: Is Equality in our Nature?

Is Equality Passé?  Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Outside the Laboratory Martin Gilens
A New Model?  Robert Haveman
Fairness  Philippe Van Parijs
Suspicions of America Steven M. Teles
The Left's Problem  Ruy Teixeira
Evolutionary Support  David Sloan Wilson
Swaying Public Beliefs  Steven N. Durlauf
"Bad" Behavior?  Nancy Folbre
Three Questions  Stuart White
Sociability  Kristin Monroe
A Conundrum  Susan E. Mayer
Who Do You Trust?  Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith
Bowles and Gintis Respond


Essays

Culture Watch: What's in a Name?   Neil Shister
First names are in. Is this a measure of democracy or just false intimacy?

In Praise of Yasar Kemal   Gunter Grass (translated by Mark Harman)

The Ownership Solution   Jeff Gates
Our economy is doing a lousy job of sharing the wealth. There's a better way.

On Film: Governing Passion    Alan A. Stone
Filled with echoes of Bill and Monica,The Governess takes the law and politics out of sex.

Skirmishes   Rosemary Quigley

Forces of Civility    John Tirman
On the NGO revolution and the search for peace.


Exchange

Development, Yes--but at What Cost?    Shiv Visvanathan and Jay R. Mandle


Fiction: Sixth Annual Short Story Contest

Shell Game with Organs    Jacob M. Appel


Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Brenda Shaughnessy introduced by Richard Howard
Jersey City Palms  Gilbert Sorrentino
Dearth Demise Bill Knott
December 14 David Lehman
Borrowed Love Poems John Yau
Dorothea Tanning's Cousins Richard Howard
St. Ursula's Origin  Barbara Claire Freeman
January 1 David Lehman
Getting Off Work  Franz Wright


Reviews

Poetry
Charles Wright: Appalachia  James Longenbach
Ann Lauterbach: On a Stair  Andrew Osborn
Ann Carson: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse  Elizabeth Macklin
D.A. Powell: Tea  Bin Ramke
Heather Ramsdell: Lost Wax
Sam Truitt: Anamorphosis Eisenhower
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
W.G.Sebald (trans. Michael Hulse): The Rings of Saturn  Edwin Frank
Prose Microreviews



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