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Departments

LETTERS

THE CONTRARIAN: Obama's Cautious Path to Education Reform

Editorials

Afghanistan: Obama Capitulates to the War Makers
Obama has become one of the most brilliant and nuanced articulators of the "war as the path to peace" worldview. It won't work.

Interview with Keith Ellison
One of our most progressive representatives talks about health care, war, Blue Dog Democrats, and how to support Obama to be the progressive president we voted for.

Politics and Society

FEATURE ARTICLE

American Depressions by HARRIET FRAAD
Why are we depressed? And why aren’t we doing anything about it?

Robert Bergman by PETER GABEL
The photographic portraits of Robert Bergman are breathtaking works of art that bring
us face to face with other human beings.

Waking Up from Denial by JORDI PIGEM
Let this economic crisis be what the Greeks called a happy crisis -- one that heals a disease.

Justice in Jerusalem by JOSH HEALEY
The poet disinvited from J Street’s conference describes the generational divide in the Jewish Left.

An American Peace Initiative:
(Is there a nice way of saying "an imposed solution"?) by GERSHON BASKIN
A Two-State Solution. Whether Israel and Palestine like it or not.

Celebrity Culture and the Obama Brand by CHRISTOPHER HEDGES
They have it all. We want it all. How celebrity distracts us from substance.

Wanting Fully Without Attachment by MIKI KASHTAN
Desire does not cause suffering. Desire is life. The suffering arises from the way we treat our desires.

In My Flesh I See God: A Neurobiological Perspective on Being Human
by JOACHIM BAUER AND TSVI BLANCHARD
For years we were defined by the "Selfish Gene. "Now, take a look at the "Social Brain."

Sunni-Shia Sectarianism and Competition for the Leadership of Global Islam by DAVID PINAULT
Muslims are seeking global versions of Islam to replace the local versions from which globalization has uprooted them.

Rethinking Religion

Commonwealth Economics: Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem
by GARY DORRIEN
Social Gospelers were dismissed for speaking an optimistic language of progress and social evolution-but they were more right than their opponents.

Married to Calvin: For Better or For Worse by TONY CAMPOLO
Calvinism stimulated capitalism, science, democracy, and environmentalism but also, it has to be admitted, anti-Semitism.

A Broken Frame: Sephardi Occlusion and the Repairing of Jewish Dysfunction by DAVID SHASHA
The open-minded religious humanism of Maimonides that informed the Sephardic outlook is needed today throughout Judaism.

A Holy Curiosity: The Synergy of Reason and Emotion by BRADLEY SHAVIT ARTSON
Spock, meet Samson: neither of you can function without the other.

Culture

BOOKS

Student Power

• Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Legacy of the 1960s
  by Robert Cohen

Review by BETTINA APTHEKER

The Mystery of Forgiveness

• Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
  by Michael McCullough
• No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
  by Michael Henderson

Review by ROGER S. GOTTLIEB

Political Geography of the Imagination

• War Bird by David Gewanter

Review by SEAN ENRIGHT

MUSIC

Quiet Ecstasy

• The Hidden One (Hane'elam): Jewish Mystical Songs
  by Richard Kaplan

Review by JONATHAN SEIDEL

POETRY

Bird by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER

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