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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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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.
Max Ritvo introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido
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