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Summer 2008
Table of Contents
Editor's Page
Turn the Page, Turn the Page! Mitchell Cohen
Politics Abroad
Does European Social Democracy have a Future? Robert Taylor
French Unions: Myths and Realities Martin A. Schain
After Communism: Travails of Democratization Shlomo Avineri
Revisiting a Vast Majority: A Journal from India Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Howard Epstein
Teaching Aristotle in Indonesia Carlos Fraenkel
Articles
Primary Obligations: Why the Democrats Should Fix the Nominating System David Greenberg
The Legacy of the Clinton Bubble Timothy A. Canova
The Untold Health Care Story: How They Crippled Medicare Lillian B. Rubin
Zipped Trousers, Crossed Legs, and Magical Thinking: Sex Education in the Age of Aids Paul Sendziuk
What Would Jefferson Do?: How Limited Government Got Turned Upside Down Lew Daly
Olympic Boycotts: Always Tricky Christopher Young
Ghandi's Burden--and Ours: Thoughts after Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera Mitchell Cohen
Arguments
Is The Wire Too Cynical? John Atlas and Peter Dreier
In Defense of The Wire Anmol Chaddha, William Julius Wilson, and Sudhir A. Venkatesh
John Atlas and Peter Dreier Respond John Atlas and Peter Dreier
Notebook
Trapped: The Iraq War Veteran on Film Jeanie Elenor Gosline
Books
Tricky Dick's Legacy: A Review of Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" Joshua Freeman
A $22,000 Question Jack Metzgar
Behind the Masks Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Has Conservatism Cracked Up? Kevin Mattson
The Last Page
Last One Out Maxine Phillips
Obituary
B.J. Widick (1910-2008) Benjamin Martin