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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 and interviews

  • "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.
  • "Moving Up the Pace of Reform," TPM Cafe, Dec. 21, 2009.
  • "An Alternative to the Mandate," TPM Cafe, Dec. 18, 2009.
  • "What Is in the Health Care Bill," TPM Cafe, Dec. 17, 2009.
  • "Deal or Die on Health Care," American Prospect, December 15, 2009 (web only).
  • "Averting a Health-Care Backlash," American Prospect, December 8, 2009 (web only).
  • "Fighting the Wrong Health Care Battle," New York Times November 30, 2009.
  • "Faster, Please" The American Prospect (December 2009), 3.
  • Journalism Without Its Public," Columbia Journalism Review (November-December 2009), 53 [posted online under the title, "Journalism Minus Its Old Public," Oct. 19].
  • Testimony, Hearing on the Future of Newspapers, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, September 24, 2009.
  • "Bipartisanship in One Party" The American Prospect (October 2009), 3.
  • "Health Care Reform Gets a Booster Shot," American Prospect Online, September 11, 2009.
  • "Obama to Press Forward with Health Care Reform" The Takeaway (WNYC radio), September 2, 2009.
  • "In Sickness and in Health," Interview, "On the Media," National Public Radio, August 21, 2009.
  • "Sacrificing the Public Option," American Prospect Online, August 19, 2009.
  • "The Public May Need to Subsidize Itself," Cato Unbound, July 17, 2009.
  • "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. Follow-up debate with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich, June 29, 2009.
  • "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. Spanish translation: Adiós a la era de los periódicos (se inicia una nueva era de corrupción)" Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano.
  • "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, December 27, 2009 
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