Volume 27, Number 6 / December 1999 EDITORIAL Tracy B. Strong 731 "The Simpsons": Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family Paul A. Cantor 734 Of Our Favorite Nietzschean Question Jason S. Caro 750 The Game of the Laws Arthur J. Jacobson 769 Political Metaphysics: God in Global Capitalism (the Slave, the Masters, Lacan, and the Surplus) A. Kiarina Kordela 789 CRITICAL EXCHANGE Cultural Interpretation and Universal Human Rights: A Response to Daniel A. Bell Evan Charney 840 Which Rights Are Universal? Daniel A. Bell 849 REVIEW ESSAY Deliberation = Legitimacy = Democracy Benhabib, ed., Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boudaries of the Political Bohman, Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity and Democracy Gutmann and Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot be Avoided in Politics and What Can Be Done about It Emily Hauptmann 857 BOOK IN REVIEW Kaplan, Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire Anna Marie Smith 873 Index 880