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Paul Starr

Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University;
Co-editor, The American Prospect

Critical evaluations: Transforming American Medicine: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 29 (4/5, 2004).
Reviews of The Creation of the Media.
And this: "There is much merit in what Mr. Starr writes [in "The Liberal Project Now" ]– though he and I fundamentally disagree ..." Karl Rove to NY Conservative Party, June 22, 2005

Freedom's Power is available in paperback with a new subtitle: The History and Promise of Liberalism. Why did I make the change? Here is the rationale..

Recent writing

"Liberalism for Now" New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009. Review of Ronald Dworkin, Is Democracy Possible Here?.

"Perils of the Public Plan" The American Prospect (July-August 2009), 3.

"Are We on Track for a Golden Age of Serious Journalism?" A debate with Steven Johnson. Prospect Magazine [U.K.], May 2009.

"Revolution Amid Recession" The American Prospect (May 2009), 3.

"Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)" The New Republic, March 4, 2009, 28-35.

"Breaking the Grip of the Past" The American Prospect(March 2009), 3.

"Welcome to the Party" The New Republic, Nov. 19, 2008, 39-42. Review of Nancy Rosenblum's On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship.

"The American Collision" The American Prospect(October 2008), 3. PDF

"Democratic Theory and the History of Communications," in Barbie Zelizer, ed., Explorations in Communications and History (Routledge, 2008), 34-44.

Last modified, June 27, 2009

starr@princeton.edu