New Democracy Forum: Do Rights Handcuff Democracy?

When Rights Are Wrong  Tracey L Meares and Dan M. Kahan

Rights and Interests Alan M. Dershowitz
Getting it Right  Jean Bethke Elshtain
It's Not So Simple  Joel F. Handler
More Wrong than Rights Carol S. Steiker
Everybody's Business  Wesley G. Skogan
Twice Victimized  Margaret A. Burnham
Mystery Terms Franklin E. Zimring
Inalienable Rights  Jeremy Waldron
Matrioshka Dolls  Bernard E. Harcourt
Faith, Hope, and Charity Anthony Paul Farley
The New Progressives  Richard H. Pildes
Meares and Kahan Respond

Interview

Silence is Death    Rev. Eugene Rivers III talks to Eva Thorne

Essays

From Utopia to Myopia   Russell Jacoby
How the aesthetic pose crippled political thinking.

Uncle Franz's Legacy   Vivian Rothstein
A personal history.

Escape From Auschwitz   Alan Stone
Life is Beautiful turned the Holocaust into a sentimental fable.

Culture Watch: Club Chaos   Neil Shister
Understanding the South Beach Effect

Fiction

The Night of the Scorpions    Elisha Porat

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Tan Lin introduced by Charles Bernstein
Censorship Lee Upton
[because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup] D.A. Powell
No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout Calvin Bedient
Ghazal Agha Shahid Ali
Gettin Out Robert Lietz
Air for Mercury Brenda Hillman
SHAZAM! Allen Grossman

Reviews

Poetry
Paul Muldoon: Hay   Stephen Burt
Yusef Komunnyakaa: Thieves of Paradise  Kevin Young
August Kleinzahler: Green Sees Things in Waves  Will Broaddus
Marjorie Perloff: Poetry On and Off the Page  Michael Davidson
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Lewis Porter: The John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Carl Woideck: The John Coltrane Companion  Scott Saul
Dworkin, Frey, and Bok: Assisted Suicide: For and Against; Battin, Rhodes, and Silvers, Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the debate  Jyl Gentzler
Prose Microreviews