Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Railroad Blues

Jonathan Rodden and Jowei Chen

Essays

A Little Help

David William Turner

Straight Shooter

Matt Gallagher

Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent

Roger Boylan

Extreme Injury

Elaine Scarry

Sometimes an Amendment Is Just an Amendment

Pamela S. Karlan

End of the Road

Al Qaeda’s Fall
Fawaz A. Gerges

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using Privilege to Challenge Power
Noam Chomsky

My Hungry Soul

Alfred Kazin’s Raw Materials
Vivian Gornick

Bugger Off

Spying Online is Perilous and Unnecessary
Evgeny Morozov

Accounting Failure

What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank
Francine McKenna—Web only

Revaluing the Book

An Interview with Richard Nash
Matt Runkle—Web only

Freedom Is a Way of Life

The Arab Summer in Tunisia
Josh Martin—Web only

There Is No Anser Mehmood Here

After 9/11, a Pakistani couple find themselves under suspicion.
Alia Malek—Web only

American Autumn

Protesters plan to bring the Arab Spring to the United States.
Nathan Schneider—Web only

Constructive Responsibility

A response to Noam Chomsky
Archon Fung—Web only

Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests

A dispatch from Union Square
Jeanne Mansfield—Web only

Unfair Advantages

Asymmetric warfare at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International trade show.
Joseph Nevins—Web only

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court Precedent Sets Back Worker Rights
Jessica Garrick and Andrew Schrank—Web only

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians have mixed feelings about the bid for statehood at the United Nations.
Mya Guarnieri—Web only

What Would Emma Do?

An Interview with Vivian Gornick
David V. Johnson—Web only

Libertarianism and Liberty

How Not to Argue for Limited Government and Lower Taxes
A forum with lead essay by T.M. Scanlon and responses by Brad DeLong and Will Wilkinson—Web only

Fiction

Thirty Seconds From Now

John Chu

On Film

Imagining Faith

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Gone Missing

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Metropole
David Gorin

In from the Cold

Miłosz and Brodsky’s Productive Exile
Alissa Valles

The Escape Artist

Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations
Translated by John Ashbery
Robert Huddleston—Web only

Microreviews

Shane McCrae
Anja Utler
Ewa Chrusciel
Heather Christie
Joanna Klink

Poems

Poet’s Sampler

Lauren Jensen
Introduced by Erika Meitner

After Battle

Karen Lepri

The Rock in Mid-lake Disappears & I Who Might

Jeanne Larsen

Lottery

Anis Shivani

October

Joseph Fasano

Of Late Fashion

Scott Provence

Used-To Lives On

C.J. Sage

Soup Is One Form of Salt Water

Heather Christle

Yes

Anthony Opal