Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Tax and Cut

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

New Model Army

Clair MacDougall

Choose Your Choice

Claude S. Fischer

Empty Benches

Pamela S. Karlan

Founding Fathers, Founding Villains

The New Liberal Originalism
William Hogeland

Head and Heart

Are Conservatives More Moral?
George Scialabba

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith
Elizabeth Goitein

Thomas Goes Riding the Silver Sunset

Thomas E. Kennedy

Art for Politics’ Sake

Claire Bishop on Social Practice
Corinne Segal—Web only

Big Finance’s Best Friend

The Wall Street Apologetics of Robert Shiller
Frank Pasquale—Web only

Sizing Up the Race

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election
David V. Johnson—Web only

History, Gym, Chem, Race

An Interview with Lawrence Blum
Kelly Catalfamo—Web only

Telling Stories About the Stories We Tell

An Interview with Philip Gourevitch
Cécile Alduy—Web only

Fareed Zakaria and the Failure of Thought Leadership

Shale Gas, Speaker Fees, Sophism
David V. Johnson—Web only

Reclaiming Politics

Solving Problems Washington Won’t
Michael Gecan—Web only

Our Men in Honduras

Losing Control of the War on Drugs
Lauren Carasik—Web only

The Execution of Carlos DeLuna

Preventing Wrongful Convictions
Gabriel O’Malley—Web only

Fiction

Pirouette

Scott Marengo

On Film

The Allen Files

Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Stefanie Wortman
introduced by Gabriel Fried

Gone

For Mark Strand, the End Is in Sight
Jay Deshpande

Deathly Love and Lovely Death

Late-Victorian Decadent Poetry
Colin Fleming—Web only

Microreviews

Books by Kathleen Ossip, Dean Young, Christopher DeWeese, Amaranth Borsuk, and Boni Joi

Poems

House Search

Sean Campbell

Spool 25

Matthew Cooperman

Slave (Jagger/Richards)

Graham Foust

The Good Historian

Graham Foust

Untitled

Barbara Claire Freeman

They’re There

Frederick Seidel