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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.

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

Recent writing, talks, and interviews

  • "Obama's BFD Second-Term Agenda," The American Prospect (January-February 2013), 20-29.
  • "Did Republicans Lose the Election?" The American Prospect (January-February 2013), 5.
  • "Tomorrow Today"[online: "Nate Silver and the Future of Prediction"] The New Republic (December 31, 2012).
  • "Politics in the Orbit of Money" The New Republic (September 13, 2012; online August 24, 2012), 28-31. [PDF].
  • Center-left Liberalism," Oxford Companion to American Politics (2012).
  • "The Sixties at 50" American Prospect (July-August 2012), 3.
  • "Cockroaches and Compromise," The New Republic (May 10, 2012), 31-33.
  • "Mitt Romney, Hero of Finance," American Prospect (March 2012), 4.
  • "The Fanatics of the Center," American Prospect (January-February 2012), 3.
  • " An Unexpected Crisis: The News Media in Post-Industrial Democracies" in John Lloyd and Janice Winter (eds.), Media, Politics and the Public (Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2011), 21-29; reprinted in International Journal of Press/Politics (2012)17: 234-242. See also Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "Guiding Starr: Freedom of expression is not freedom of the press" Columbia Journalism Review (May-June 2012).
  • "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 Ultimate Republican Threat," American Prospect (September 2011), 3.
  • "Die Unerwartete Krise der Vierten Gewalt," Transit [Vienna] (Fall 2011), 170-173.
  • "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.
  • "Better than Tea," American Prospect (June 2010), 3.
  • 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.
  • "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, January 17, 2013 
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