Khaled Abou El Fadl is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. His recent books include
The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Joshua Cohen is the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of the Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and coeditor of the
Boston Review. Deborah Chasman is coeditor of the
Boston Review.
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Khaled Abou El Fadl: Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the ro …
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€33.99
Mary Lyndon Shanley: Just Marriage
From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "sacred institution" of marriage has turned into a public battleground. …
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€29.33
Boston Review: Evil Empire
“All history, ” writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution to this issue, “is the history of empire—a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past.” Evil Empire confronts these …
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Glenn C. Loury: Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world’s population, now houses twenty-five …
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Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen: Evil Empire
Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays."All history, " writes Maximillian Alvarez, "is the history of empire-a bid for control …
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€40.69
Elizabeth Catte: Left Elsewhere
An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike.In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a …
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€30.16
Edward Miguel: Africa’s Turn?
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of …
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€43.10
Dean Baker: Taking Economics Seriously
A leading economist’s exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker …
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€43.10
Elaine Scarry: Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not.This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing …
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Hans Blix: Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for …
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€42.77
Akbar Ganji: Road to Democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.Akbar Ganji, called by some "Iran’s most famous dissident, " was a member of the …
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€42.74
Agnes Callard, et al: On Anger
Anger looms large in our public lives. Should it? Reflecting on two millennia of debates about the value of anger, Agnes Callard contends that efforts to distinguish righteous forms of anger from unj …
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€21.99
William Hogeland: Inventing American History
A historian’s call to make the celebration of America’s past more honest.American public history-in magazines and books, television documentaries, and museums-tends to celebrate its subject at all …
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€42.97
Joseph H. Carens: Immigrants and the Right to Stay
A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting …
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€43.24
Stephen M. Meyer: End of the Wild
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now …
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Tom Barry: Border Wars
The consequences of political fear-mongering and tough talk on immigration in the American Southwest.The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest as a model for the nation …
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