The Fight Is for Democracy

Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World

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Edited by George Packer

Harper Collins Publishers

Due/Published August 2003, 304 pages, paper

ISBN 0060532491

In The Fight Is for Democracy, nine leading writers take a hard, and at times personal, look at American life and America's role in the world. These pieces share a belief in the need for liberal reform at home and abroad. Power alone is not enough to win hearts and minds around the world. The war against terrorism should be a war for democracy.

Contributors: Todd Gitlin, Michael Tomasky, Paul Berman, William Finnigan, Susie Linfield, Jeff Madrick, Kanan Makiya, Laura Secor, Vijay Seshadri

Contents

Introduction: Living Up to It
Between Cheney and Chomsky: Making a Domestic Case for a New Liberal Foreign Policy
The Giant in the House
Ideas of Transcendence
Varieties of Patriotic Experience
Arab Demons, Arab Dreams: 1967-2003
The Treason of the Intellectuals (Again)
Globalization Meets Pachamama
Inequality and Democracy
Thirteen Observations on a Very Unlucky Predicament
Contributors