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A debate on the new environmentalism, led by Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen, with responses by Cass Sunstein, Daniel J. Fiorino, Matt Wilson and others. Stewart O’Nan on the lost fiction of Richard Yates, Michael Greenberg on the art of borrowed fiction. H. Allen Orr on religion vs. science. Seyla Benhabib on Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and the fate of the personal. Plus, fiction by Scott Blackwod, poetry by Prageeta Sharma, Mac Wellman, and Judith Taylor, and more.
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