May/June 2016
What Is Education For?
Public education should make citizens, not workers. So says Danielle Allen in our new forum—and she thinks that the focus on STEM can't accomplish that goal, only the humanities can. Respondents include Deborah Meier, Clint Smith, Michel DeGraff, and Rob Reich. Alex de Waal, one of the nineties' leading humanitarian reporters, has had a radical change of heart: almost all humanitiarian interventions go horribly wrong, he mourns, so maybe we're doing more harm than good. Samuel Moyn worries we focus too much on rights and not enough on duties, and James G. Chappel proposes that our obsession with secularism has made religion more inscrutable...
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What Is Education For?
Danielle Allen debates
Deborah Meier, Carlos Fraenkel, Debra Satz, Michel DeGraff, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Lelac Almagor, Rob Reich, Lucas Stanczyk, and Clint Smith.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Perspective: On Stone Mountain
Christopher Petrella
Books & Ideas
Rights vs. Duties
Reclaiming Civic Balance
Samuel Moyn
Holy Wars
Did Secularism Invent Religion?
James G. Chappel
James G. Chappel
Paul Park's Hidden Worlds
John Crowley
On Poetry
"Discovery" Contest Winners
Ryan Fox, Carlie Hoffman, Gaia Mukomolova, and Miller Oberman
Wear Your Wig
Terrance Hayes's How To Be Drawn
Christopher Spaide
Elusive Particles
Rae Armantrout's Itself
Lisa K. Perdigao
Lisa K. Perdigao
Microreviews of Johannes Göransson's The Sugar Book, Arielle Greenberg's Slice, Andrea Baker's Each Thing Unblurred Is Broken, Tonya M. Foster's A Swarm of Bees in High Court, and Shane McCrae's The Animal Too Big to Kill.
Poems
Fragments
Shūzō Takiguchi, translated by Yuki Tanaka and Mary Jo Bang
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Brenda Hillman
A Disservice
John Ashbery
Poem of My Humiliation
Erika L. Sánchez
To Tell of Bodies Changed to Different Forms
Jorie Graham
Animal Love
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
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