Charles Yuji Horioka (Philippines): The Life and Work of Martin Stuart (“Marty”) Feldstein. Nancy Morawetz (NYU) and Natasha J. Silber (WLRK): Immigration Law and the Myth of Comprehensive Registration. Madeline Eller (Syracuse): On Fat Oppression. Jonathan Gershuny and Kimberly Fisher (Oxford): Post-industrious Society: Why Work Time Will not Disappear for Our Grandchildren. Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan): When May the Executive Break the Law? A Theory of Republican Prerogative. Jody Freeman (Harvard) and David B. Spence (Texas): Old Statutes, New Problems. From Dissent, a special section on the question of how we should respond to stagnation. Allan Young reviews Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience by Liah Greenfeld. Can the welfare state be lean? Pavel Mates and Jan Smid find out. From TLS, a review essay on books about death by Christopher Belshaw. Two dozen people — a JP Morgan associate, a sex worker, a pastor, a living statue, a marine, “the World’s First Publicly Traded Person”, and many more — tell us the best way to invest a single dollar. Talking clean and acting dirty: Katherine Rowland interviews Robert Bullard, the “father of environmental justice”, on the politics of protection and vulnerability. Is the American media biased in favor of Israel? Max Fisher investigates. Robert Reich on the six principles of the new populism (and the establishment's nightmare). Tim Harford on an astonishing record of complete failure: “In 2008, the consensus from forecasters was that not a single economy would fall into recession in 2009”. The introduction to Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice, ed. Bice Maiguashca and Raffaele Marchetti.
