Editor's Page
Walzer, Michael
Editor's Page THIS IS A BIG Dissent, partly because we are planning a special issue for Winter and could not hold articles over, partly because of an embarrassment of riches. Editors...
...Manuel DeLanda provides our first account of the debate over property rights on the Internet (we will return to this issue...
...We shouldn't accept that restriction, but we should join the argument wherever it is going on...
...Editors dream about this...
...Ulrich Beck continues our discussion of a topic sometimes neglected in the endless talk about economic globalization: what political regime, what distribution of power looms on the global horizon...
...The pieces by Jennifer Hochschild, Norm Fruchter, Adolph Reed, Jr., Katie Terezakis, Monty Neill, Leo Casey, and Andrew Felton all address the question, What are the best ways of providing a decent start to children from different racial groups and social classes...
...I can't explain it, nor can I do justice to our authors on this short page...
...Over many years, the left has written about and worked on education because the schools were taken to be one possible instrument of an egalitarian politics...
...n But our chief focus this fall is on schools and students...
...Nelson Lichtenstein reconsiders C. Wright Mills's first book, on the labor movement and its leaders...
...Kant Bajpai reiterates for an American audience the arguments he has been making in India against the deployment of nuclear weapons...
...New Men of Power was mostly forgotten after the success of The Power Elite, which focused on a more likely group...
...n Schools are also important because they provide a relatively secure base for ideological debate and political action...
...The last years have brought a revival of student politics, and Rachel Neumann, Gordon Lafer, and Jeffrey C. Isaac (to whom Liza Featherstone responds) provide accounts and critiques of what is going on...
...There are ideological justifications for all of this, as is only right, but most of these activities stop short of world-historical pretension...
...n Among our many new writers, Amy D. Burke looks beyond the glowing reports of declining welfare rolls to the real meaning of "welfare reform...
...Mostly the activity is more practical, more local—organizing graduate students, defending campus wage workers, campaigning against university dealings with third world sweatshops...
...The idea of equality hardly arises anywhere except in arguments about educational policy...
...Today they are pretty much the only instrument that is still in discussion...
...Editor's Page THIS IS A BIG Dissent, partly because we are planning a special issue for Winter and could not hold articles over, partly because of an embarrassment of riches...
...What's going on isn't what went on in the sixties, though there are always people pretending to reenact the heady days of yesteryear...
...We feature Marshall Berman's essay on Times Square, a brilliant account of how urban space can, even if it mostly doesn't, foster human freedom and social equality...
...But it is worth remembering now, as unions struggle for survival...
...Which is also, right now, only right...
Vol. 48 • September 2001 • No. 4
