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Dædalus Coming up in Dædalus: Dædalus on Life Anthony Kenny, Thomas Laqueur, Shai Lavi, Lorraine Daston, Paul Rabinow, Robert P Dædalus coming up in Dædalus: Dædalus on life Anthony Kenny, Thomas Laqueur, Shai Lavi, Lorraine Daston, Paul Rabinow, Robert P. George, Robert J. Richards, Nikolas Rose, John Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Broome, Jeff McMahan, and Adrian Woolfson Fall 2007 on nature Leo Marx, William Cronon, Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kevles, Bill McKibben, Harriet Ritvo, Gordon Orians, Camille Parmesan, Margaret Schabas, and Philip Tetlock & Michael Oppenheimer 2007: on the public interest Fall on the E. J. Dionne Jr. Why the public interest matters now 5 on cosmopolitanism Martha C. Nussbaum, Margaret C. Jacob, A. A. Long, Pheng Cheah, public interest William A. Galston An old debate renewed 10 Darrin McMahon, Helena Rosenblatt, Samuel Scheffler, Arjun Adam Wolfson From James Madison to Abraham Lincoln 20 Appadurai, Rogers Smith, Peter Brooks, and Craig Calhoun Nathan Glazer Reflections on an elusive goal 30 plus poetry by Ted Richer, C. D. Wright &c.; ½ction by Chris Abani, Jagdish Bhagwati Some implications for economic policy 37 Wesley Brown, Alix Ohlin &c.; and notes by Phyllis Coley, Don Gary Hart The commonwealth ideal 45 Harrán, Richard Kraut, Ian Ayres &c. Christine Todd Whitman Governing in the public interest: then & now 51 Robert N. Bellah Ethical politics: reality or illusion? 59 Amy Gutmann The dangers of extremist rhetoric 70 Lance Taylor Economists & the wealth of nations 79 poetry Molly McQuade Spring’s So Sad, We Want to Know Why 88 ½ction Mary Gordon Dilly 89 dialogue Cornel West & D. Graham Burnett On Melville’s The Con½dence-Man 101 notes Omer Bartov on Eastern Galicia’s past & present 115 Harriet Ritvo on the animal turn 118 U.S. $13; www.amacad.org Inside front cover: A centerfold from Harper’s Week- ly, engraved by Thomas Nast (1840–1902) to mark Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1863. That year, Thanksgiving fell in the midst of the Civil War, and seven days after Abraham Lincoln had delivered his Gettysburg Address, prophesying a nation born again, “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Nast depicts Lady Liberty kneeling in prayer, surrounded by inset images of a variety of other Americans in prayer, including President Lincoln. See William A. Galston on An old debate renewed: the politics of the public interest, pages 10–19: “The public inter- est can help us understand and seek a politics of common purpose . 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There are also poles in Left’s classic statement of principles is- our history de½ned by liberty and com- sued in 1962, almost perfectly captured munity, the individual and the collective, the era’s tension between individual- the public and the private. ism and community. At one point, it de- The interplay among these is not al- clared: “As a social system we seek the ways clear. The New Left in the 1960s establishment of a democracy of individ- was both powerfully communitarian ual participation, governed by two cen- and strongly individualistic. One re- tral aims: that the individual share in vealing New Left manifesto carried the those social decisions determining the quintessentially communitarian title, quality and direction of his life; that so- The Right to Say We, even as it is hard ciety be organized to encourage inde- to ½nd a more radically individualistic pendence in men and provide the media movement than the Yippies, who–to for their common participation.” I have the extent that they had a philosophy added the emphasis on “individual” and “independence” on the one hand, and E.
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