Ira Katznelson Evil & politics 7

James K. Galbraith A perfect crime: global inequality 11 Orlando Patterson Beyond compassion 26 Richard A. Epstein Against redress 39 Christopher Jencks Does inequality matter? 49 Sean Wilentz America’s lost egalitarian tradition 66 James F. Crow Unequal by nature: a geneticist’s perspective 81 Ernst Mayr The biology of race 89 Martha C. Nussbaum Sex, laws & inequality: India’s experience 95 Robert W. Fogel & Chulhee Lee Who gets health care 107 Ian Shapiro Why the poor don’t soak the rich 118

Frank Bidart Young Marx 129

Bharati Mukherjee A wedding 131

Howard Gardner on intelligence 139 Frank Wilczek on the world’s numerical recipe 142 David G. Nathan on clinical research & the future of medicine 147 Neil J. Smelser on a new encyclopedia 151 Gerald Early on Miles Davis & Vince Lombardi 154