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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

New Book: Freedom's Power now available in paperback with a new subtitle: The History and Promise of Liberalism. Why did I make the change? Here is the rationale. And there's more at the blog Freedom's Power.

Recent writing

  • "Welcome to the Party, Theoretically," 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.
  • “Freedom's Future Online," The American Prospect (July-August, 2008), 38-41. Review of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain.
  • "The Year of Passion" The American Prospect (July-August 2008), 3. PDF
  • "A New Deal of Their Own" The American Prospect (March 2008), A6-7.
  • "The Democrats' Strategic Challenge" The American Prospect (January-February 2008), 12-15.
    Last modified, November 4, 2008 
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