Winter 2026

Linda Gordon on Jon Wiener’s Historians in Trouble

Recently, a PBS Frontline documentary called “The New Asylum” showed how our jails and prisons have become, by default, the nation’s mental hospitals. This wasn’t an exposé. The prison under examination didn’t seem particularly bad. The staff seemed to be …

Local justice in Rwanda

The Anatomy of Fascism  by Robert O. Paxton Vintage, 2005, 336 pp., $15.00 The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz Harvard University Press, 2003, 362 pp., $29.95 Ever since William Wordsworth celebrated revolution as a gift of youth and Edmund Burke …

Joanne Barkan asks whether globalization is turning Europe into a museum

The War in Iraq and Dissent

If poetry, as Wordsworth wrote, “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility,” political thought should take its origin from contention and anger similarly recollected. I suspect that tranquility is in short supply among our writers, but still, we try …

If only working-class and poor people would register and vote, liberal Democrats would win every election-that’s what we thought, until November 2, 2004. Democrats work on voter registration, Republicans work on vote suppression. So tens of millions were spent on …

In the fall of 2002, the American Political Science Association appointed a Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy. The fifteen members of the task force are Lawrence Jacobs, chair (University of Minnesota), Ben Barber (University of Maryland), Larry Bartels …

Roméo Dallaire’s Shake Hands with the Devil and Keir Pearson and Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda

The Dirty Little Secret of Financial Globalization

Nicholaus Mills looks at the first battle for Social Security