Democracy and its Problems

Russell A. Berman
Introduction

Alice Ormiston
A Tragic Desire: Rousseau and the Modern Democratic Project

Grant Havers
James Burnham's Elite Theory and the Postwar American Right

David Randall
Empiricism, the New Rhetoric, and the Public Sphere

Rahul Govind
Equality, Right, and Identity: Rethinking the Contract through Hobbes and Marx

Alexandre Lefebvre
Law and the Ordinary: Hart, Wittgenstein, Jurisprudence

Dianna Taylor
Countering Modernity: Foucault and Arendt on Race and Racism

Marcelo Hoffman
Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault


Reviews

Roger Chao
Liberalism: A Tyrannical Paradox?

John Grant
Late Dialectics: Marxism, History, and the Persistence of Fredric Jameson

Notes and Commentary

Elizabeth J. Perry
Rejoinder to Rebecca E. Karl's "The Flight to Rights: 1990s China and Beyond"

Rebecca E. Karl
Response to Elizabeth J. Perry