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...Peter Beinart's article "Will Politicians Matter?" suggests that Americans are returning to a broader and more traditional definition of politics as something that takes place in all walks of civic life, not merely inside the Beltway and the ballot booth. Such a concept seems to be closer to what Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, who viewed politics as applied ethics, had in mind. To the extent that we consider ourselves citizens, we must become politicians in the oldest and widest sense of the word--not only by voting and running for office but also by participating in the fast...
Thanks to high-tech baby-making techniques, women and men will increasingly no longer need to mate in the traditional ways, and Barbara Ehrenreich explores the implications with Swiftian wit. Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic, says goodbye to politics, predicting that instead religion will become the primary force in shaping society. Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, takes a different tack in answering the question, "Who Will Be the Next Elite?" The answer: not yesterday's Wasp or today's SAT high scorer, but the young entrepreneur...
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