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John Bowen leads a forum on France After Charlie Hebdo. Arthur Goldhammer, Joan Wallach Scott, Haroon Moghul, and others respond. Jessa Crispin writes on the incorporation of victimhood into women’s identities; Randall Kennedy warns against the legacy of black power revisionism; Claude Fischer on political correctness. Plus, new poems by Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa.
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WITH RESPONSES FROM ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER, DIDIER FASSIN, JOAN WALLACH SCOTT, HAROON MOGHUL, MAYANTHI L. FERNANDO, JOSEPH MASSAD, DAVID D. LAITIN, MICHÈLE LAMONT AND NICOLAS DUVOUX, AND MALEIHA MALIK.
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