September/October 2015
40th Anniversary Issue
Our 40th anniversary issue. Ira Katznelson leads a forum on the Anxieties of Democracy. Peter Godfrey-Smith reviews Charles Taylor and Hubert Dreyfus's Retrieving Realism. Judith Levine profiles Ellen Willis. Mike Konczal shows how bureaucracy expands our liberties. Poems by Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Charles Simic, and others.
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40th Anniversary Issue
Subscribe to our print issue to read a selection from our archive featuring Cornel West, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Richard Freeman, Martha C. Nussbaum, Deborah Maier, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, Elaine Scarry, Glenn C. Loury, Evgeny Morozov, Nancy Cott, and Noam Chomsky.
Anxieties of Democracy
Ira Katznelson debates
Larry Kramer, Hélène Landemore, David M. Kennedy, Michael Gecan, Mark Schmitt, Martin O’Neill, Rick Perlstein, Nadia Urbinati, Mohammad Fadel, Melissa S. Williams, Michael C. Dawson, Alex Gourevitch, and Richard Trumka.
Foundations
Dispatch: Sandy Speaks
Made in America: Just Deserts
Wonders: CRISPR: The Latest Biotech Hype
Perspective: The Eternal Return of the Christian Nation
Fiction
Cheapest Solutions
Books & Ideas
The Passion of Ellen Willis
Finding Your Way Home
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Feeling into Action
Colin Dayan
Half a Loaf
Hail to the Pencil Pusher
Mike Konczal
On Poetry
Poet's Sampler
Max Ritvo introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido
John Clare's Heirs
Little Gods
Heather Treseler