PAUL STARR
ON POLITICS AND SOCIAL CRITICISM

Selected items on

The Battle of Ideas       Foreign Policy       Social Policy
Democracy at Home       The Future of the Democratic Party

The Battle of Ideas

• The New Liberal Opportunity," The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 7, 2007).
  
• Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism (Basic Books, April 2007).
• "Why Liberalism Works" The American Prospect (April 2007), 34-40.
  
• "The Liberal Project Now" The American Prospect (June 2005)
  
• "The Return of the Nativist" The New Republic June 21, 2004, 25-28. [on Samuel Huntington's Who Are We?]
• "Nothing Neo," The New Republic (December 4, 1995), 35-38.[On Irving Kristol's Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea.]
• "Who Owns the Future?" The American Prospect no. 21 (Spring 1995): 6-10.
• "Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Intellectuals," from the series on "Intellectuals and Public Life," New York University, February 8, 1995.
• "Liberalism After Socialism," The American Prospect, no. 7 (Fall 1991), 70-80.
• "The Cultural Enemy Within," The American Prospect, no. 4 (Winter 1991).
• "The Price of Pessimism," The New Republic, January 23, 1989. [On Nathan Glazer's The Limits of Social Policy.]
• "Losing More Ground," The New Republic, December 5, 1988. [On Charles Murray's In Pursuit.]

Foreign Policy

• "War and Liberalism," The New Republic, March 5 and 12, 2007.
  
• "Pyongyang Boomerang," The American Prospect (November 2006)
  
• "Rendezvous with Failure," The American Prospect (September 2006)
  
• "Next Stop Iran?" The American Prospect (May 2006)
  
• "Letting Go of Iraq" The American Prospect (September 2005)
  
• "The Liberal Uses of Power" [with Michael Tomasky and Robert Kuttner], The American Prospect (March 2005).
• "Liberalism in Arms” The American Prospect (September 2004).
• "The Meaning of Abu Ghraib” The American Prospect (June 2004).
• "The President’s New Crusade” The American Prospect (December 2003).
• "The Easy War” The American Prospect (March 2003).
• "No Choice but War?” The American Prospect (October 7, 2002).
• "The War We Should Fight," The American Prospect (October 22, 2001).
• "The Choice in Kosovo," The American Prospect, no. 45 (July-August 1999): 6-9.
• "No Vietnam: The Liberal Case for War," The New Republic (February 19, 1991).

Social Policy

• "End of the Private New Deal" The American Prospect (July 2005)
  
• "Why We Need Social Security," The American Prospect (February 2005).
• "Judicial Overreach” The American Prospect (March 2004).
• “The New Politics of Diversity," The American Prospect (June 17, 2002).
• "Catholic Crisis, Jewish Nightmare,” The American Prospect (May 20, 2002).
• "A New Deal for the Young,” in Paul N. Van de Water and Lisbeth B. Schorr, eds, Security for America's Children: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company 1993).
• "Civil Reconstruction: What to Do Without Affirmative Action," The American Prospect no. 8 (Winter 1992): 8-14.
• "Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game," The American Prospect no. 17 (Spring 1994): 19-29.

Democracy at Home

• “The Public Vanishes,” The New Republic (August 14, 2000), 35-37 [On Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.]
• "A Reform That Doesn’t," The American Prospect (May 7, 2001).
• "The Loophole We Can't Close," The American Prospect no. 35 (January-February 1998): 6-9.

The Future of the Democratic Party

• "The Democrats' Strategic Challenge" The American Prospect (January-February 2008), 12-15.
  
• "Winning Cases, Losing Voters," The New York Times, January 26, 2005.
• "Morals of the Election” The American Prospect (December 2004).
• "America’s Parliamentary Election," The American Prospect, v. 11, no. 1 (November 23, 1999), 8-10.
• "An Emerging Democratic Majority," The American Prospect no. 35 (November-December 1997): 18-27. Adapted and reprinted from Stanley Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, eds., The New Majority (Yale University Press, 1997).