Summer 2011, No. 21

With this issue, Democracy asks: What more should government be doing to encourage greater entrepreneurship?

We’ve gathered a distinguished group of writers, led by William Galston, to answer the question. The symposium touches on a range of subjects—from immigration reform and minority business ownership to innovation clusters and entrepreneurship education—and offers bold new ideas on how to craft a future-oriented progressive agenda.

Also in the issue: the latest installment of our America 2021 roundtable series, this time on the future of climate policy. After the failure of cap-and-trade, what’s next? And in the latest entry in our First Principles series, we have a debate between Geoffrey Stone and William Marshall on one side and Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan on the other on how progressives should interpret the Constitution and fight conservative originalism.

The rest of the issue boasts the usual assortment of top-notch essays and reviews. G. John Ikenberry on the liberal international order. Heather Hurlburt on the military-industrial complex. Harold Pollack on the war against vaccines. David Strauss on William Brennan. And much more.

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Symposium

First Principles: Debating the Constitution

Whenever there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the public gets a short refresher course on the judiciary and an introduction to the legal philosophies of the nominee and of the senators who must consent to the nomination. Then...

By The Editors

3 MIN READ

The Framers’ Constitution

By Geoffrey Stone William P. Marshall

11 MIN READ

The Case for New Textualism

By Doug Kendall Jim Ryan

12 MIN READ

Geoffrey R. Stone & William P. Marshall respond

By Geoffrey Stone William P. Marshall

5 MIN READ

Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan respond

By Doug Kendall Jim Ryan

5 MIN READ

Symposium

From the Ground Up: Fostering Entrepreneurship

The intrepid entrepreneur striking out on his own has always been an essential part of Americas image of itself. Pulling himself up by his bootstrapsor setting up her e-business on a laptop in a coffee shopthe self-made individual is the...

By The Editors

4 MIN READ

Progressive Entrepreneurship: A Work in Progress

By William Galston

12 MIN READ

Our Best Imports: Keeping Immigrant Innovators Here

By Vivek Wadhwa

12 MIN READ

Location, Location, Location: Creating Innovation Clusters

By Maryann Feldman

12 MIN READ

Minority Report: Expanding Opportunity for All

By Thomas "Danny" Boston

12 MIN READ

Life Lessons: Educating the Next Entrepreneurs

By Amy Rosen

12 MIN READ

Features

A World of Our Making

The international order that America created will endure—if we make the transition to a grand strategy based on reciprocity and shared leadership.

By G. John Ikenberry

25 MIN READ

America 2021: What Next on Climate?

The effort to address climate change stumbled with the failure to pass cap-and-trade. What should happen now? Five experts discuss the future of U.S. climate and energy policy.

By The Climate and Energy Roundtable

39 MIN READ

Book Reviews

Peace Is Our Profession

Fifty years on, Eisenhowers military-industrial complex is very much with us. But its not inevitable that it must exist forever in this form.

14 MIN READ

The Last Liberal Justice?

Why William Brennan was the twentieth century's most consequential Supreme Court justice.

By David Strauss

15 MIN READ

Fright Doctors

The hideous impacts of the vaccine-autism myth and the reasons it has proven so difficult to debunk.

By Harold Pollack

16 MIN READ

Responses

Threat Position

Progressives who preach declinism and restraint have forgotten that we still face dangerous enemies. A response to Anatol Lieven.

By Jeffrey Herf

13 MIN READ

Recounting

Tweeting Toward Bethlehem

With social media fueling changes both trivial and seismic, we need to think about a new public ethic for the Internet age.

By Ethan Porter

14 MIN READ

Editor's Note

Editor's Note

Michael Tomasky introduces Issue #21.

By Michael Tomasky

4 MIN READ

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters from our readers

By Democracy Readers

5 MIN READ

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