Society

Social Science and the Public Interest

The Great Entitlement Raid

Amitai Etzioni

Deconstructing Left and Right: The Case for Bipartisanship

Eugene Goodheart

The Age Gap in the 2008 Presidential Election

Patrick Fisher

The Phony War to “Keep Them in School”

Robert Weissberg

Do We Need More College Graduates?

William Beaver

Engineering the Competition: Affirmative Action as Subsidized Mobility

Carl L. Bankston III

Why the Fair Use Doctrine Should be Eliminated

Robert A. Campbell

Taxing Antisocial Behavior for the Common Good

Peter Lorenzi

Sobering Up on the Streets: Homeless Men in Alcoholics Anonymous

Rachel L. Rayburn, James D. Wright

George F. Kennan’s Realism

Paul Gottfried

Report Card from East Germany

John Rodden

The Secret Lives of Readers

Gary Alan Fine, Shannon K. Fitzsimons

Society’s Books of Note

Society’s Books of Note

Slavoj Zizek and the Rise of the Celebrity Intellectual

Paul Hollander

Daniel Maier-Katkin, Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

Irving Louis Horowitz

Richard Alba, Blurring the Color Line

William B. Helmreich

Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

Bryan S. Turner

David Lewis Schaefer, Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition

Gavin T. Colvert