Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London. 

Politics

Volume V, Number 4 | fall 2012

Feast of Fools

Lewis H. Lapham

The Great Rift

Jeffrey Gettleman

Between the Lines

Robert Boyers

Trial by Fire

Anthony Grafton

Working the Room

Michael Phillips-Anderson

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Covert Affairs

c. 300 BC | India

Wherein Man Has Failed

1910 | New York City

Cleaning House

411 BC | Athens

Remembrances of a Republic Past

1812 | United States

To Whom It May Concern

1789 | New York City

Different Constitutions

1858 | Ottawa, IL

Public Service Announcement

1819 | Florence

Point of Order

c. 1745 | La Brède

Art of the Possible

1787 | Mount Vernon

True to Form

c. 330 BC | Athens

Pump Up the Volume

c. 1925 | China

Corporations Are People Too

2010 | Washington, DC

Voting for Monarchy

522 BC | Persia

All Power to the People

1917 | Petrograd

Declining the Honor

1849 | Concord, MA

Taste Test

1526 | Agra

Security Measures

1776 | Philadelphia

Camera Ready

1507 | Urbino

Words to the Wise

c. 525 | Denmark

No Child Left Behind

c. 771 | Gaul

In the Spotlight

c. 1930 | New York City

Desolation Row

1775 | Braintree, MA

Campaign Promises

1879 | Hartford, CT

It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

1848 | Seneca Falls, NY

A Dictator’s Folly

1973 | Tehran

Do the Right Thing

427 BC | Athens

Taking Action

1969 | Washington, DC

Freedom Isn’t Free

1790 | London

Closing Arguments

2000 | Borneo

Politically Incorrect

c. 1673 | England

Unbroken Spirit

1918 | Munich

Father Knows Best

c. 1804 | Missouri

Democratic Protocol

c. 328 BC | Zariaspa

Portrait of a Dictator

1933 | Moscow

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