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Volume 27, Issue 1

Letters to the Editor

Editorials

Educators and Academics: Educate Yourselves as Americans Turn to the Right

The Brilliant and Short-Sighted Strategy of the Israeli Right

SPECIAL SECTION: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

From Individual Rights to the Beloved Community: A New Vision of Justice
by PETER GABEL

Walking Toward Conflict
by DOMINIC BARTER

The Day the Jail Walls Cracked: A Restorative Plea Deal
by SUJATHA BALIGA

Restorative Justice: Some Facts and History
by MARYLIN ARMOUR

Controversies Around Restorative Justice
by DAVID BELDEN

What's Love Got to Do With It?
by FANIA E. DAVIS

The Restorative Impulse
by KAY PRANIS

Healing From Harm and Unlearning Violence
by SONYA SHAH

A New Vision for Correctional Officers
by SUNNY SCHWARTZ and LESLIE LEVITAS

Confronting Sexual Assault: Transformative Justice on the Ground in Philadelphia
by BENCH ANSFIELD and TIMOTHY COLMAN

Decolonizing Restorative Justice
by DENISE C. BRETON

Shifting School Culture
by RITA ALFRED and INA BENDICH

Politics & Society

Who's Afraid of Identity Politics?
by DAN MCKANAN
From the women's movement to the Black Power movement, identity-based organizing has transformed our society. Does identity politics really deserve its bad rap?

The Terms on Which Jews and Muslims Join Western Civilization
by SANDER L. GILMAN
Jews have gained acceptance in part through their use of self-mocking humor. Now some Muslims have launched a sitcom to counter the prejudice they face.

Rethinking Religion

The Future of World Religion: Four Scenarios, One Dream
by JORGE N. FERRER
Will a single religion arise? Will syncretism proliferate? Will the world develop shared interspiritual wisdom? Let's find a way to energize interfaith dialogue without losing the beauty of religious diversity.

Culture

Books
Socialism in Civil Society
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright
Review by JOHN BRUEGGEMANN

Educating for Wisdom
Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Bruce Novak
Review by SVI SHAPIRO

Poetry in the Age of Mass Incarceration
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison and Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Review by STEPHEN JOHN HARTNETT

Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss
The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler
Review by MICHAEL EAUDE

Humor
The Shabbes Wife
by JOSH KORNBLUTH

Poetry
Kaffiyeh on the Mississippi
by REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS

Tikkun Recommends

Obama on the Couch by Justin A. Frank

Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Metamaus by Art Spiegelman

The Universe Bends Toward Justice by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

The Atheist's Guide to Reality by Alex Rosenberg