Articles by Jacob Stevens
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Prisons of the Stateless
in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 53-67
Subjects: International Relations
Charged in 1951 with defending rights of asylum, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has been recast for an age of humanitarian warfare. From Operation Provide Comfort to Bosnia and the Rwandan massacres—a compliant advocate of repatriation at any cost.
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Somatic Mind
in NLR 33, May-June 2005, pp. 135-147
Subjects: Philosophy , Psychology and Psychoanalysis , Science
Jacob Stevens on Steven Rose, The 21st-Century Brain. Complexity and plasticity of synaptic interaction, in a materialist challenge to neo-Darwinist models. Is it possible to account for the evolutionary heritage of the brain without compromising the autonomy of the social?
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Exorcizing the Manifesto
in NLR 28, July-August 2004, pp. 151-160
Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy
Jacob Stevens on Gareth Stedman Jones, Introduction to The Communist Manifesto. Intellectual antecedents of the trumpet blast of 1848. Must today’s critics lower their political horizons?
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Artificial Twins?
in NLR 23, September-October 2003, pp. 145-154
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
Jacob Stevens on Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments. Smith and Condorcet compacted into icons for the social market.
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Monetized Ecology
in NLR 16, July-August 2002, pp. 143-151
Subjects: Environment
Jacob Stevens on Bjørn Lomborg, The Sceptical Environmentalist. Cost-benefit analysis of land, air and oceans yields a panglossian ecological forecast for the century ahead.
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Barring the Doors
in NLR 12, November-December 2001, pp. 153-159
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
Jacob Stevens on Jeremy Harding, The Uninvited; Michael Dummett, On Immigration and Refugees; and Teresa Hayter, Open Borders. The blockading of Europe’s frontiers against the arrival of those in fear or need, and the reasons why ‘aliens’ should be welcomed.
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G. A. Cohen's Revolution in Morals
in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 145-150
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
Jacob Stevens on G. A. Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? From Marx’s theory of history to lessons from Old Testament and New for today’s guidance.
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