Is democracy possible here?: Principles for a new political debate

Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-177

  Dworkin, Ronald ^a  

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References (36)

1. See my article in "The Election and America's Future," The New York Review of Books, November 4, 2004.
2. Newt Gingrich, Winning the Future (Regnery, Regnery,), xiv.
3. See my article "You'd Better Believe It," Philosophy & Public Affairs (1991).
4. Robert P. George, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press,), 106. George describes a paternalist I once imagined, who thinks that people's lives go better if they are forced to pray, as a "straw man." "It is hard to imagine a God foolish enough to be tricked by or pleased by such imitation prayer or a modern person foolish enough to believe in such a God.".
5. See my article "What the Court Really Said," The New York Review of Books, August 12, 2004.
6. See Bob Jones III Retiring from University, http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/6850482/from/RL.5/.
7. See Joseph Loconte, "Isaiah Was a Democrat," International Herald Tribune, January 3, 2006.
8. See "How Family's Cause Reached the Halls of Congress," New York Times, March 22, 2005, section A, p. 1.
9. See John Danforth, "In the Name of Politics," New York Times, March 30, 2005, section A, p. 17.
10. New York Times, November 4, 2004, section A, p. 25.
11. John Rawls, Collected Papers (Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press,), 588-89.
12. Gingrich, Winning the Future, xxi.
13. Gingrich, Winning the Future, ix, 69.
14. See Denise Grady, "Study Finds 29-Week Fetuses Probably Feel No Pain and Need No Abortion Anesthesia," New York Times, August 2005, section A, p. 10.
15. Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board, Federal District Court Middle Area Pennsylvania, Judge John Jones Memorandum Opinion, December 20, 2005.
16. Elisabeth Bumiller, "Bush Remarks Roil Debate over Teaching of Evolution," New York Times, August 3, 2005, section A, p. 14.
17. David Stout, "Frist Urges 2 Teachings on Life Origin," New York Times, August 20, 2005, section A, p. 10.
18. See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board. For a very clear statement of the scientific errors in the intelligent design argument, see Philip M. Boffey, "The Evolution Wars, Revisited," New York Times on the Web, http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/opinion/18talkingpoints .html?pagewanted=all8dpc.
19. Bumiller, "Bush Remarks Roil.".
20. See Michael A. Fletcher and Jonathan Weisman, "Bush Renews Push for Extending Tax Cuts," Washington Post, December 6, 2005, p. A02.
21. Arthur B. Kennickell, "A Rolling Tide: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in the U.S., 1989-2001," table 10 (Levy Economics Institute, November Levy Economics Institute, November).
22. http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ie3.html.
23. See "A Marie Antoinette Moment," International Herald Tribune, January 3, 2006, p. 6.
24. See Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein, "Exempting Corporate Dividends from Individual Income Taxes," Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, January 6, 2003.
25. See "Wanted: A Wary Audience," New York Times, January 31, 2006, section A, p. 20.
26. See "Economy Up, People Down: Declining Earnings Undercut Income Growth," Economic Policy Institute Publication, http://www.epi .org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_income20050831.
27. See "Average American Family Income Declines," http://abcnews .go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1654810&business=true.
28. See Council of Economic Advisers, "Strengthening America's Economy: The President's Jobs and Growth Proposals," January 7, 2003.
29. Joseph Stiglitz, "Bush's Tax Plan-the Dangers," The New York Review of Books, March 13, 2003.
30. See, e.g., Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas (Henry Holt, 2004).
31. See, e.g., Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory (Princeton University Press, 2003).
32. That claim is forcefully argued in Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2002).
33. See Murphy and Nagel, Myth of Ownership. See also Justine Burley, ed., Dworkin and His Critics (Blackwells, Blackwells,), 353.
34. See also my article "Do Liberty and Equality Conflict," in Paul Barker, ed., Living as Equals (Oxford University Press, 1996).
35. Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin, Deliberation Day (Yale University Press, 2004).
36. Ann Coulter, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (Crown Forum, If You Must) (Crown Forum, 2004).