New Democracy Forum

The purpose of Boston Review’s New Democracy Forum is to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues of the day—both on and off the agenda of conventional politics—and to say something about how we might better address them. The project grows out of political convictions, a practical premise, and a sense of urgent need . . . [continued]

Topics

Making Aid Work
Exit Strategy
What's Hurting the Middle Class
In the National Interest
The Right Fight
How Can the Democrats Win?
What We Owe to Parents
What Makes Schools Work?
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
Democracy and Double Standards
What’s Wrong with Our National Defense?
Ruled by the Market?
Crime and Punishment
Caregiving in Crisis
Putting the Pieces Together?
Machine Politics
Is the Internet Good for Democracy?
Faith in Politics?
Stepping Up Labor Standards
The Future of Affirmative Action
Delivering a Basic Income
Moving Out
The Nuclear Danger and How to Stop It
Is Equality Good Medicine?
Do We Need Educational Standards?
A New Environmentalism Takes Root
What’s Driving Consumption?
Do Rights Handcuff Democracy?
Global Action to Prevent War
Is Equality in Our Nature?
The Promise of Immigration
The Future of Media
Keeping the Lid On: Local Control in a Global Economy
Reflecting All of Us
Going Global?
The End of War?
Getting Wages in Gear
New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform
A Plan to Save the Cities
The New Inequality, and What to Do About It

Making Aid Work

Making Aid Work
How to fight global poverty—effectively    Abhijit Banerjee

With Ian Goldin, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern; Mick Moore; Ian Vásquez; Angus Deaton; Alice H. Amsden; Robert H. Bates; Carlos Barbery, Howard White, Jagdish Bhagwati, Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs, and Ruth Levine

Response by Abhijit Banerjee

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy
How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months     Barry R. Posen

With Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Senator Joseph Biden, Vivek Chibber, Senator Russell Feingold, Randall Forsberg, Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis, Helena Cobban, Christopher Preble, Eliot Weinberger, and Nir Rosen

Response by Barry R. Posen

What's Hurting the Middle Class

What's Hurting the Middle Class
The myth of overspending obscures the real problem    Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

With Jacob S. Hacker, Jonathan Gruber, G. Marcus Cole, Jeff Madrick, Stephen Brobeck, David Crockett, Chuck Collins, A. Mechele Dickerson, Tamara Draut, Jared Bernstein, Robert D. Manning, and Juliet Schor

Response by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

In the National Interest

In the National Interest
A new grand strategy for American foreign policy    Stephen M. Walt

With Richard Falk, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ervand Abrahamian, Khalil Shikaki, Naomi Chazan, Robert Vickers Jr., Mahmood Mamdani, John Tirman, Ivo Daalder, James Lindsay, Mary Kaldor, and Anne-Marie Slaughter

Response by Stephen M. Walt

The Right Fight

The Right Fight  Daniel Richman

• A Lack of Respect  David A. Harris
• No New Agency  Bob Barr
• Federalism Won't Work  Edward Rubin
• 'No Cop Left Behind'  William J. Stuntz
• A Waste of Time  Juliette Kayyem
• The Feds Aren't Listening  David A. Sklansky
• Stick to Fighting Crime  Kevin R. Johnson
• A New World  Elizabeth Glazer
• Police Don't Fight Wars  Richard T. Ford
• History's Shadow  Corey Robin
• Richman Replies

How Can the Democrats Win?

How Can the Democrats Win?  Rick Perlstein

• Still Thinking Big  William A. Galston
• A Lost Cause  Adolph Reed Jr.
• Reality Check  Ruy Teixeira
• DIY Politics  Dan Carol
• Fusion Politics  Daniel Cantor
• Movement Politics  Robert B. Reich
• Progressive Blues  Michael C. Dawson
• Good Government  Elaine Kamarck
• A Flexible Plan  Richard Delgado
• Mobilize the Poor  Stanley Aronowitz
• The Winds of Change  Philip Klinkner
• What's Wrong with Short-Term Thinking?  Larry M. Bartels
• Perlstein Replies    

What We Owe to Parents

What We Owe to Parents  Anne Alstott

• A Right to Care  Robin West
• Against Neutrality  Amy L. Wax
• Falling Short  Eva Kittay
• Race, Class, and Care  Dorothy Roberts
• Shooting for the Moon  Deborah Stone
• Worst of Both Worlds  Richard A. Epstein
• Alstott Replies    

What Makes Schools Work?

What Makes Schools Work?  Richard D. Kahlenberg and Bernard Wasow

• Cautionary Note  William A. Galston
• Devil in the Details  Richard J. Murnane
• Other Priorities Reg Weaver
• Empower the Poor Joseph P. Viteritti
• Choosing Neighborhoods, Choosing Schools Amy Hanauer
• In Good Company Deborah Meier
• Kahlenberg and Wasow Reply    

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy  Khaled About El Fadl

• Practice and Theory  John L. Esposito
• Change from Within  Nader A. Hashemi
• The Best Hope  Noah Feldman
• Democracy and Conflict  Jeremy Waldron
• The Priority of Politics  M.A. Muqtedar Khan
• The Importance of Context  A. Kevin Reinhart
• Questioning Liberalism, Too  Saba Mahmood
• Too Far from Tradition  Mohammad H. Fadel
• Popular Support First  Bernard Haykel
• Islam Isn’t the Problem  William B. Quandt
• Khaled Abou El Fadl Replies    

Democracy and Double Standards after 9/11

Their Liberties, Our Security  David Cole

• A Legacy of Xenophobia Bonnie Honig
  
• The Importance of Belonging  Amitai Etzioni
  
• Real Security Concerns  Gerald Neuman
  
• More Security? Juliette Kayyem
  
• A View from Abroad  Philip A. Thomas
  
• Small Compromises  Alan Dershowitz
  
• Misguided Response  Oren Gross
  
• Widening the Circle  Hiroshi Motomura
  
• Liberty for All  Laurence Tribe
  
• False Security  Wendy Kaminer
  
• A Dangerous Place  Mari Matsuda
  
• David Cole Replies

What’s Wrong with Our National Defense?

Citizenship in Emergency  Elaine Scarry

• Too Utopian? Richard Falk
  
• Democracy Won’t Help  Paul W. Kahn
  
• A Policy Failure?  Stephen M. Walt
  
• A Success of Democracy? Charles Knight
  
• An Informed Citizenry  Antonia Chayes
  
• The Slide into Passivity  Catherine Lutz
  
• Saddam and Democracy  Rear Admiral Eugene A. Carroll
  
• Citizens and Arms Control  Randall Forsberg
  
• The Realities of War  Ellen Willis
  
• Elaine Scarry Replies

Ruled by the Market?

Reclaiming the Commons  David Bollier

• Public Health Marcia Angell
  
• The Place of Politics  Robert W. McChensey
  
• Common Property?  Tom G. Palmer
  
• A Useful Framework? Nicholas Johnson
  
• Digital Democracy  Jeff Chester and Gary O. Larson
  
• Rhetoric of the Commons  Richard D. Parker
  
• Intellectual Enclosure  Richard Stallman
  
• The Cost of Community  Margaret Kohn
  
• David Bollier Replies

Crime and Punishment

• The Legacies of Collective Violence Helena Cobban
  
• Policing Disorder  Bernard E. Harcourt
  
• Deadly Symbiosis  Loïc Wacquant
  

Caregiving in Crisis

Can Working Families Ever Win?  Jody Heymann

• Freedom and Opportunity Jean Bethke Elshtain
  
• Limited Options  Anne Alstott
  
• The Value of Care  Joan Tronto
  
• The Place of Education James P. Comer
  
• The Political Bind  Theda Skocpol
  
• Adding Gender and Work  Lotte Bailym
  
• Costs and Benefits  William A. Galston
  
• The Dismal Science  Susan Moller Okin
  
• Strength in Numbers  Karen Nussbaum
  
• Beyond Opportunity  Isabelle Ferreras
  
• The Right Time  Thomas A. Kochan
  
• Sharing the Burden  Myra Marx Ferree
  
• A New Vision  Bradley A. Googins
  
• Affordable Policies  Jodi Grant
  
• Policy Matters  Frances Fox Piven
  
• Heymann Replies

Putting the Pieces Together?

The Case for Binationalism  Lama Abu-Odeh

• Ends and Means Helena Cobban
  
• Joint Responsibilities  Leonard Fein
  
• Realistic Liberalism  Louis Michael Seidman
  
• The Cunning of History Ian S. Lustick
  
• No Easy Solution  Ebrahim Moosa
  
• A Trojan Horse?  Efraim Karsh
  
• A Binational Confederation  Jerome M. Segal
  
• The Binationalist Lure  Salim Tamari
  
• Lama Abu-Odeh Replies

Machine Politics

The Search for New Voting Technology  Stephen Ansolabehere

• A Partnership for Reform Lloyd Cutler & Robert Mitchel
  
• Leveling the Levers  Rogers M. Smith
  
• Every One Must Count  Donna Brazile
  
• An Unfunded Mandate David C. King
  
• Democratic Values?  Daniel R. Ortiz
  
• Barred from the Booth  E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  
• Wasted Votes?  Robert Richie
  
• Bigger Issues  Heather Gerken
  
• Perfection Can Wait  Mickey Edwards
  
• Internet Voting in Eurona  Marc Strassman
  
• The Next Step?  Robert Richie
  
• Stephen Ansolabehere Replies

Is the Internet Good for Democracy?

The Daily We  Cass Sunstein

• In Democratic Time Jay Rosen
  
• Mathematics of Growth  Simson Garfinkel
  
• Shaking Hands  Michael Schudson
  
• Different Media? Ronald N. Jacobs
  
• Cynicism and Choice  Shanto Iyengar
  
• Challenging the Consensus  Henry Jenkins
  
• Power to the Producers  Robert W. McChesney
  
• Cass Sunstein Replies

Faith in Politics?

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry   Eva Thorne and Eugene Rivers

• Party Politics Lani Guinier
  
• The Church?  Cathy Cohen
  
• Whose Betrayal?  J. Phillip Thompson
  
• Among White Evangelicals Ronald J. Sider
  
• Moral Fervor  Alan Wolfe
  
• New Leadership?  Julianne Malveaux
  
• Low Expectations Ellen Willis
  
• Preaching and Politics Peter Dreier
  
• Heavy Lifting Manning Marable
  
• Thorne and Rivers respond 
  

Stepping up Labor Standards

Realizing Labor Standards  Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, and Charles Sabel

• A Better Mousetrap Robin Broad
  
• Some Up, Some Down  Pranab Bardhan
  
• Wishful Thinking  Mark Levinson
  
• The View from the Tropics Kaushik Basu
  
• Unions and the State  David Moberg
  
• Educating Workers  Heather White
  
• Human Development Guy Standing
  
• Monetize Labor Practices Ian Ayres
  
• Fung, O’Rourke, and Sabel Respond 
  

The Future of Affirmative Action

The Future of Affirmative Action  Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier

• Mending Affirmative Action Stephen Steinberg
  
• Vygotsky to the Rescue!  Howard Gardner
  
• The Promise of Diversity  Mary C. Waters and Carolyn Boyes-Watson
  
• Too Formal? Paul Osterman
  
• America’s Next Step  Ward Connerly
  
• It’s Still a Test  Maureen A. Scully and Deborah M. Kolb
  
• Diversity and Capitalism Michael J. Piore
  
• Pseudo-Meritocracy Peter Sacks
  
• What’s Fair? Peter Cappelli
  
• Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier Respond 
  

Delivering a Basic Income

A Basic Income for All  Phillipe Van Parijs

• What About Reciprocity William A. Galston
  
• UBI and the Flat Tax  J. Herbert A. Simon
  
• Falling in Love Again  Wade Rathke
  
• Security and Laissez-faire Emma Rothschild
  
• Subsidize Wages  Edmund S. Phelps
  
• UBI and the Work Ethic  Brian Barry
  
• Optional Freedoms Elizabeth Anderson
  
• Good for Women Anne L. Alstott
  
• Dignity and Deprivation Ronald Dore
  
• Why Pay Bill Gates? Fred Block
  
• Something for Nothing? Robert E. Goodin
  
• A Debate We Need Katherine McFate
  
• The Big Picture Peter Edelman
  
• On Liberty Gar Alperovitz
  
• Pathways from Here Claus Offe
  
• Philippe Van Parijs Responds 
  

Moving Out

What Should be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind  Owen Fiss

• Down by Law Richard Ford
  
• Beyond Moralizing  J. Phillip Thompson
  
• Better Neighborhoods?   Robert Coles
  
• Creating Options Jennifer Hochschild
  
• Exit and Redevelopment  Gary Orfield
  
• Relocation Works  James E. Rosenbaum
  
• Beyond Ghetto Gilding Alexander Polikoff
  
• A Task Unfinished  Owen Fiss responds

The Nuclear Danger and How to Stop It

• Reagan and Nuclear Disarmament Lawrence S. Wittner
  
• Gorbachev’s Nuclear Learning  Vladislav M. Zubok
  
• The Second Age of Nuclear Danger  Jonathan Schell
  
• Old Treaties, New World Sergey Rogov
  
• Eliminating the Danger  Randall Forsberg
  

Is Equality Good Medicine?

Justice is Good for Our Health  Norman Daniels, Ichiro Kawachi, and Bruce Kennedy

• Does Inequality Matter? Michael Marmot
  
• Pockets of Poverty  Marcia Angell
  
• Equal Opportunity  Sudhir Anand and Fabienne Peter
  
• Policu Options Ted Marmor
  
• Political Problems  Ezekiel Emanuel
  
• First Contact  Barbara Starfield
  
• A Healt Agenda Emmanuela Gakidou, Julio Frenk, and Christopher Murray
  
• Lost in Translation  Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
• Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi respond
  

Do We Need Educational Standards?

Educating a Democracy  Deborah Meier

• No Excuses Abigail Thernstrom
  
• Making a Difference  Bob Chase
  
• Expert Opinion  Gary B. Nash
  
• Habits of Mind Linda Nathan
  
• The Case for Standards  Richard J. Murnane
  
• The Standards Fraud  William Ayers
  
• A Sense of Place Theodore Sizer
  
• Deborah Meier responds
  

A New Environmentalism Takes Root

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism  Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen

• Government’s Job Matt Wilson and Eric Weltman
  
• An Appealing Vision  Daniel J. Fiorino
  
• Frontyard Propaganda  Theodore J. Lowi
  
• Good Cops, Bad Cops DeWitt John
  
• Compenating Citizens  Jacqueline Savitz
  
• Building Consensus  Lawrence Susskind
  
• Models of Reinvention  Daniel Farber
  
• The Western Experience Jason F. Shogren
  
• Consequences? Cass R. Sunstein
  
• Sabel, Fung, and Karkkainen Respond
  

What’s Driving Consumption?

The New Politics of Consumption  Juliet Schor

• Market Failures Robert H. Frank
  
• The Stone Age  James Twitchell
  
• The Price is Right?  Jack Gibbons
  
• Quality of Life Clair Brown
  
• The Personal Level  Betsy Taylor
  
• Postmodern Markets  Douglas B. Holt
  
• A New Puritanism?  Craig J. Thompson
  
• Too Much Economics Michele Lamont and Virag Molnar
  
• Leisure for All Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt
  
• Juliet Schor Responds
  

Do Rights Handcuff Democracy?

When Rights are Wrong  Tracey Meares and Dan Kahan

• Rights and Interests Alan M. Dershowitz
  
• Getting it Right  Jean Bethke Elshtain
  
• It’s Not So Simple  Joel F. Handler
  
• More Wrong Than Rights Carol S. Steiker
  
• Everybody’s Business  Wesley G. Skogan
  
• Twice Victimized  Margaret Burnham
  
• Mystery Terms  Franklin Zimring
  
• Inalienable Rights Jeremy Waldron
  
• Matrioshka Dolls Bernard E. Harcourt
  
• Faith, Hope, and Charity Anthony Paul Farley
  
• The New Progressives Richard H. Pildes
  
• Meares and Kahan Respond
  

Global Action to Prevent War

Global Action to Prevent War  Randall Forsberg, Jonathan Dean, and Saul Mendlovitz

• Irrational Interests Kosta Tsipis
  
• Missing the Politics  Mary Kaldor
  
• A Return to Peace  Alan Cranston
  
• Too Utopian Lora Lumpe
  
• Forsberg Responds
  

Is Equality in Our Nature?

Is Equality Passé?  Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

• Outside the Laboratory Martin Gilens
  
• A New Model?  Robert Haveman
  
• Fairness  Philippe Van Parijs
  
• Suspicions of America Steven M. Teles
  
• The Left’s Problem  Ruy Teixeira
  
• Evolutionary Support  David Sloan Wilson
  
• Swaying Public Beliefs  Steven N. Durlauf
  
• "Bad" Behavior?  Nancy Folbre
  
• Three Questions  Stuart White
  
• Sociability  Kristin Monroe
  
• A Conundrum  Susan E. Mayer
  
• Who Do You Trust?  Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith
  
• Bowles and Gintis Respond
  

The Promise of Immigration

The Immigrant as Pariah  Owen Fiss

• Let the People Decide Richard B. Freeman
  
• First Class  T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  
• Caste Recast  Rogers M. Smith
  
• Let Them Vote Jennifer Gordon
  
• A Right to Dignity  Ulrich Preuss
  
• Beyond Borders  Iris M. Young
  
• A Moral Responsibility  Robin West
  
• Open Borders  Mark Tushnet
  
• Messy Realities  Myron Weiner
  
• Getting Policy Wrong Jagdish Bhagwati
  
• Rights or Privileges?  Muzaffar Chishti
  
• Fiss Responds
  

The Future of Media?

Making Media Democratic   Robert W. McChesney
Editors’ Note   Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Bold Proposals   Ralph Nader
• The Real World   Lawrence K. Grossman
• Two Misplaced Objections   C. Edwin Baker
• Diminishing Hopes?   Doug Schuler
• Let People Choose   Stephen Ansolabehere
• Internet Treasure   Andrew L. Shapiro
• McChesney Responds
  

Keeping the Lid On: Local Control in a Global Economy

Think Globally, Lose Locally Theodore J. Lowi
Editors’ Note   Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• How Bleak?   Susan Rose-Ackerman
  
• Grassroots Approaches   Sanford Lewis
  
• Rethinking the Local    Gerald E. Frug
  
• Pragmatic Devolution    Donald F. Kettl
  
• Without a Net    Jerry L. Mashaw
  
• Local Power   Joel F. Handler 
  
• A New Bismarck   Charles F. Sabel 
  
• Lowi Responds    
  

Reflecting All of Us

The Case for Proportional Representation   Robert Richie & Steven Hill
Editors’ Note   Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Keep It Simple   Cynthia McKinney
  
• Cautionary Notes   John Ferejohn
  
• Solving the Race Problem    E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  
• Instability?    Gary W. Cox
  
• Making It Happen    Daniel Cantor
  
• Mixing the Message   Ross Mirkarimi 
  
• Come Out Fighting   Anthony Thigpenn 
  
• A Bigger Picture   Pamela S. Karlan 
  
• Richie and Hill Respond   
  
      A PR Glossary
      John Stuart Mill on Proportional Representation

Going Global?

Egalitarianism in a Global Economy Andrew Glyn

• Who’s Progressive? William Greider 
  
• A Virtuous Global Circle Geoffrey Garrett 
  
• Down Memory Lane Rachel McCulloch 
  
• Working the Supply Side Thomas Palley 
  
• Hard Tasks Dani Rodrik 
  
• Andrew Glyn Responds
  

The End of War?

Toward the End of War Randall Caroline Forsberg

• No Justice, No Peace Robert Borosage 
  
• Paradoxes of Conflict Edward Luttwak 
  
• Difficult Reforms Raimo Vayrynen 
  
• Alternative Approaches Ulrich Albrecht 
  
• The Politics of Peace Carl Kaysen 
  
• What Else Causes War? Bruce Russett 
  
• The High Cost of Failure Ronald V. Dellums 
  
• Randall Forsberg Responds

Getting Wages in Gear

Equity with Employment Robert H. Haveman
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Too Optimistic? Robert M. Solow 
  
• European Distinctions Fritz W. Schwarpf 
  
• A World of Difference Rebecca M. Blank 
  
• For A Living Wage Arnie Graf and Jonathan Lange 
  
• Political Considerations Benjamin I. Page 
  
• Haveman Replies

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

Going Public David Donnelly, Janice Fine, and Ellen S. Miller
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Modest Reform?, Russell Feingold 
  
• Setting Limits, Douglas Phelps 
  
• Empower Citizens, Zach Polett 
  
• Clean and Constitutional, E. Joshua Rosenkranz 
  
• The Patriot Option, Bruce Ackerman 
  
• Labor’s Role, Steve Rosenthal and Amanda Fuchs 
  
• A Plea for Realism, Thomas E. Mann 
  
• A Role for Parties, Daniel H. Lowenstein   
  
• Donnelly, Fine, and Miller Reply

A Plan to Save the Cities

A New Urban Agenda Daniel D. Luria and Joel Rogers
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Political Barriers, J. Phillip Thompson
  
• The Need for Coalition, Myron Orfield
  
• Labor’s Role, Richard A. Feldman
  
• The Real Case for Density, Margaret Weir
  
• Luria and Rogers Reply

The New Inequality, and What to Do About It

Solving the New Inequality Richard Freeman
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

• Through a Gendered Lens, Heidi Hartmann
• What Consensus?, Paul Krugman
• Promoting the Common Good, Michael Piore
• New Ideas?, Frances Fox Piven
• A Liberal Agenda, James Tobin
• Old Problem, New Despair, James Heckman
• What About Organizing?, Ernesto Cortes
• Freeman Replies