Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Big Organic

Wenonah Hauter

Essays

Hosts

Matthew Fishbane

Dragon’s Blood

Sidney W. Mintz

Happiness Policy

Claude S. Fischer

Contempt of Court

Pamela S. Karlan

Remarkable Facts

Ending Science as We Know It
Elliott Sober

A March to the Grave

Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Roger Boylan

To Be Fair

Is there a Moral Case for Free Markets?
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson

War Is Betrayal, Redux

A Veterans Day Discussion
Chris Hedges, Roy Scranton, Chris Lombardi, Phillip Carter, William Treseder, and Joyce Goldberg—Web only

Beyond the Welfare State

Rawls’s Radical Vision for a Better America
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson—Web only

Fighting over the Same Ground

Rajiv Chandrasekaran on America’s Last Days in Afghanistan
David V. Johnson—Web only

Making Elections Fairer

An Interview with Archon Fung
David V. Johnson—Web only

Pomp and Exceptional Circumstance

How Students Are Forced to Prop Up the Education Bubble
Malcolm Harris—Web only

How Not to Talk about Gaza

The Ineffable in the Occupied Territories
Colin Dayan—Web only

How Big Finance Won the American Revolution

An Interview with William Hogeland
David V. Johnson—Web only

Submitting to the Law of Nations

Palestine, Israel, and the International Criminal Court
David Luban—Web only

The Next Left

An Interview with Bhaskar Sunkara
Jake Blumgart—Web only

Son of Mary

Reflections on the Muslim Jesus
Haroon Moghul—Web only

Fiction

It’s a Small World

Ariel Dorfman

On Film

Black Like Me

Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan’s 2016: Obama’s America
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poetry Contest Winner

Sarah Crossland
Selected by Matthea Harvey

The Suffering of Others

Jorie Graham’s PLACE
David Micah Greenberg

Echoes

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
Lindsay Turner

Opposing Terms

A Symposium on the Poetic Limits of Binary Thinking
Marjorie Perloff, Ange Mlinko, Stephen Burt, Maureen McLane, Matthew Zapruder, and others.—Web only

Glut Reactions

The Demographics of American Poetry
An exchange between Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula—Web only

Poems

Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton’s Needle

John Ashbery

Recent History

John Ashbery

On Ninjas

Jane Yeh

Station

Andrew Zawacki

Là

Andrew Zawacki

No Sky

Martha Ronk

Elegy

Martha Ronk

To the Shopping Mall

Vincent Guerra

A Parable

Anna Maria Hong—Web only

Poem for Four Years

Danniel Schoonebeek
introduced by Timothy Donnelly—Web only

Poet’s Sampler

Grant Souders
introduced by Dan Beachy-Quick—Web only