Editor's Page
Cohen, Mitchell
TURN THE PAGE, turn the page! No, not the one you are reading, not just yet. It is the country that needs to turn onto a new page. It is hard to think of an aspect of our political, social, and...
...asks Lew Daly in a challenge to the right wing's expropriation of the idea of limited government...
...Laissez-faire for whom...
...There needs to be a far-reaching discussion of what political organization should mean in this country— whatever the results in November...
...Political commitments in a democracy need to be more than a tick...
...asks Timothy A. Canova...
...n Now turn the page...
...But he hasn't been the worst president...
...Yes, that ancient philosopher who said that if you aren't part of a political community, you are either a god or a poor beast...
...Shlomo Avineri looks at "Post-Communism...
...Why should Democrats and independents be able to vote in Republican contests...
...Some weeks ago a friend and I tried to determine who was...
...M.C...
...n Christopher Young asks about the effectiveness of Olympic boycotts...
...Let's hope it initiates a debate...
...asks Lillian B. Rubin...
...Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Howard Epstein describe a journey to India, and Carlos Fraenkel writes about teaching Aristotle in Indonesia...
...No, I don't mean a premature celebration of unity or electoral victory...
...This is the Democrats' election to lose...
...It is hard to think of an aspect of our political, social, and economic life that hasn't been stained by all these years of "Conservative Revolution...
...I mean a political party...
...Why should Republicans and independents vote to select the candidate of a party to which they have no commitment, with which they have no identification...
...Health insurance economics for whose sake...
...They did not begin with Bush, although his administration deserves credit for implementing many of them...
...n Good arguments about ideas begin with the right questions...
...Bush's botch only led to a civil war abroad...
...Deregulation on whose behalf...
...n Why, for instance, should there be open primaries...
...Something is very wrong—everywhere...
...Joining an American political party requires no more than a registration tick, and that itself has pretty limited meaning...
...We decided on James Buchanan...
...n It would be salutary if politics were more a matter of good ideas overcoming bad ones...
...After all, a lot of bad ideas have dominated public debate for some decades...
...n So here is an interesting question: should the Democrats have a party...
...In our "Politics Abroad" section, Robert Taylor surveys European social democracy and Martin A. Schain demythologizes French unions...
...Nominating a candidate is not the same thing as electing one, as David Greenberg points out in his important lead article in this issue...
Vol. 55 • July 2008 • No. 3
