Opening Argument

Is the Military Commissions Act Wise?
Will China Face Civil War?

Do the Democrats Have a Future?
Change the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime?

Is South Dakota’s abortion ban productive?
How do we move beyond oil?

Is NSA wiretapping good policy?
What’s so bad about Wal-Mart?

What do you think of the Alito nomination?
Are U.S.-U.N. relations on the right track?

Should diversity play a role in judicial appointments?
Should Yale Law School change its stance on military recruiting?


February 2007	VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2

Is the Military Commissions Act Wise?	Will China Face Civil War?

NO: The MCA Denies Habeas and Due Process By Richard Epstein James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution YES: The MCA Provides Habeas and Plenty of Process By David B. Rivkin, Jr. Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker & Hostetler, a contributing editor to National Review and National Interest magazines, and a Member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Served in the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice during the Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations. NO: The MCA Denies Equal Protection By Jonathan Hafetz Litigation Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law NO: The MCA Damages Military Justice By COL (ret) David Graham Executive Director of the Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. The views here are personal -- they do not represent those of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, or the Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School	YES: Class Conflict May Lead to Civil War By Wei Jingsheng Advocate for human rights and democracy in China. Sentenced to jail for more than 18 years due to democracy activities, including his 1978 essay, "The Fifth Modernization". Author of "Courage to Stand Alone -- Letters from Prison and Other Writings,” a compilation of essays written initially on toilet paper in jail. Recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1997, and the Olof Palme Memorial Prize in 1994. Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize more than ten times. NO: The CCP Will Gradually Adjust to Avoid War By David B. Denoon Professor of Politics & Economics at New York University. He has two books coming out in 2007: a monograph, The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India (Palgrave-Macmillan) and an edited volume, China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs (NYU Press) YES: Illegitimate Privatization Has Sown Dangerous Seeds By Hu Ping Chief editor of Beijing Spring and Ren Yu Ren Quan. This article was translated by Stacy Mosher, Communications Director of Human Rights in China. NO: It's All About The Economy By Stan Abrams Partner at Lehman, Lee & Xu in Beijing Comment: Domestic Instability and Chinese Foreign Policy By Jacqueline Newmyer President and chief executive officer of Long Term Strategy Group, LLC, a Cambridge, MA-based defense consultancy, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Comment: Will History Be Repeated? By Merle Goldman Professor of History Emerita, Boston University and the author of the recent book “From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China"

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