Summer 2007 - Dissent Magazine

Summer 2007

Editor's Page

Bush’s Murphy’s Law (and Other Presidential Evolutions)

Mitchell Cohen

Comments & Opinions

Guns and Grief

Lillian B. Rubin

Politics Abroad

Genocide Without End? The Destruction of Darfur

Eric Reeves

Multiculturalism and Democracy

Shalom Lappin

Justice Denied in Bosnia

Courtney Angela Brkic

Articles

Why Aren’t U.S. Cities Burning?

Michael B. Katz

Against Academic Boycotts

Martha Nussbaum

Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Squeezing Public Education: History and Ideology Gang Up in New Orleans

Ralph Adamo

Universal Health Insurance 2007: Can We Learn From the Past?

Ted Marmor

No Refuge Here: Iraqis Flee, but Where?

Joseph Huff-Hannon

How to Tax the Rich—And Live Happily Ever After

Robin Blackburn

Notebook

A Non-Zionist Reflects on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Eugene Goodheart

Who Named the Neocons?

Benjamin Ross

Books

Choosing Sides: On Nick Cohen’s What’s Left?

Johann Hari

Globalization’s Mad Scientist: On Joseph Stiglitz

Mark Engler

Is There Still a South? And Does it Matter?

Dan T. Carter

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Road to Socialism

Maurice Isserman

Root Causes and Rotten Ideas: On Dinesh D’Souza’s The Enemy At Home

Charles Taylor

No Laughing Matter: Martin Amis takes on the Gulag

David Marcus

The Last Page

When is a Life Worth Writing About?

Matt Moore