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Paul Starr

 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Photo: January 18, 2011; photographer: Chris Vultaggio. Intelligence Squared debate, as seen on Bloomberg TV.

Now available: Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform (Yale University Press, 2011). On Facebook.

Recent writing, talks, and interviews

  • "Cockroaches and Compromise," The New Republic (May 10, 2012), 31-33.
  • "Three Roads from the Supreme Court" American Prospect (May 2012), 3-4.
  • TEDx talk on Supreme Court and the Struggle over Health Care Reform.
  • "Mitt Romney, Hero of Finance," American Prospect (March 2012), 4.
  • "The Health Care Mandate Really Was a Mistake," The New Republic, January 2, 2012.
  • "The Fanatics of the Center," American Prospect (January-February 2012), 3.
  • "The Mandate Miscalculation," The New Republic (December 29, 2011), 11-13.
  • "Their Preexisting Condition" [Title in print edition] "In 2012 Obama and Romney Would Both Bear the Burdens of Health Reform" [Web title]Washington Post (and other papers), November 27, 2011.
  • "The Case for a Clinton-Biden Switch," American Prospect (online only), November 7, 2011.
  • "Obama's Fate and Ours," American Prospect (November 2011), 3.
  • "The Medicare Bind," American Prospect (November 2011), 24-35.
  • "The Ultimate Republican Threat," American Prospect (September 2011), 3.
  • "Die Unerwartete Krise der Vierten Gewalt," Transit [Vienna] (Fall 2011), 170-173.
  • "Paul Starr: Taking on Health Care Reform," Publishers Weekly, August 12, 2011.
  • "The Manichean World of Timothy Wu," American Prospect (July-August 2011), 63-66.[Review of The Master Switch.]
  • "The Demise of the Moderate Republican," American Prospect (June 2011), 3.
  • "The Healthy Fallout from Fukushima," American Prospect (May 2011), 3.
  • "Troubled States," American Prospect (March 2011), 3.
  • "The Republicans' Senior Moment," American Prospect (January 2011), 3.
  • "Dodging a Bullet: Democracy’s Gains in Modern War," in Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
  • "Back to Deadlock," American Prospect (November 2010), 3.
  • "America's 20-Year Tug-of-War," American Prospect (September 2010), 24-28.
  • "The Next Health-Reform Campaign," American Prospect (September 2010), A3-A7.
  • "Better than Tea," American Prospect (June 2010), 3.
  • "The Opt-Out Compromise," American Prospect, March 9, 2010.
  • "A Health Insurance Mandate With a Choice," New York Times, March 3, 2010.
  • Statement to the Federal Communications Commission Workshop on the Future of Media and Information Needs of Communities, March 4, 2010.
  • "Governing in the Age of Fox News," The Atlantic (January-February 2010).
  • "The Liberal State in a Digital World," Governance 23 (January 2010), 1-6.
  • "Averting a Health-Care Backlash," American Prospect, December 8, 2009 (web only).
  • "Fighting the Wrong Health Care Battle," New York Times November 30, 2009.
  • "Liberalism for Now" New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009. Review of Ronald Dworkin, Is Democracy Possible Here?.

    Critical evaluations: "Transforming American Medicine: A Twenty-Year Retrospective," Special issue, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (2004). Reviews of The Creation of the Media. Reviews of Freedom's Power, available in paperback with a new subtitle: The History and Promise of Liberalism. Why the change? Here's the rationale.

    Last modified, May 1, 2012 
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