Scott Sherman

Scott Sherman is a contributing writer to The Nation.

Currently

  • Has the 'Journal' Lost Its Soul?

    April 22, 2009

    Rupert Murdoch has not wrecked the Wall Street Journal, as many had predicted. But a key question remains: is the new regime committed to unbiased reporting, or will it politicize the news?

  • In His League

    January 15, 2009

    An affectionate and absorbing oral history raises questions of whether George Plimpton's amiable exterior concealed a man without qualities.

2008

  • Naipaul's Darkness

    November 19, 2008

    Biographer Patrick French offers a vivid, sometimes enthralling portrait of a deeply enigmatic writer.

2007

  • Sun-rise in New York

    April 18, 2007

    How the pugnacious, money-losing New York Sun has won friends and influenced conservatives.

  • Letters

    February 14, 2007 Subscribe

  • ACLU v. ACLU

    January 18, 2007

    The civil liberties organization is engulfed in a tumultuous family feud over its controversial leader.

2006

  • Brady Kiesling's Tale

    December 7, 2006

    A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.

  • Chilling the Press

    June 28, 2006

    Did the New York Times violate the Espionage Act by publishing reports of government secret spying program? A controversial essay in Commentary has provided intellectual ammunition to chill, censor and punish the press.

  • Taken for Granted: Ford Replies

    May 31, 2006 Subscribe

  • Target Ford

    May 18, 2006

    When the Ford Foundation came under pressure, it revised its grant-making standards, restricting the political activities of its grantees.

  • NYU--No More Ivory Tower

    January 26, 2006 Subscribe

2005

  • Bitter Winter at NYU

    December 20, 2005

    Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching stipend and ability to teach. This could have a chilling effect on campus union organizing nationwide.

  • Conrad Black's Fall

    December 15, 2005 Subscribe

    Reading Patrick Fitzgerald's sixty-page indictment of publishing magnate Conrad Black and his associates, one gets the feeling that the next stop for this high-living power-broker will be a prison cell.

  • Salvador Memories

    October 26, 2005 Subscribe

    An exhibit at the International Center of Photography showcasing the brutal images of the civil war in El Salvador should remind the Pentagon and the public that the "Salvador Option" currently considered by the military leads directly to the charnel house.

  • Press Watch

    July 28, 2005

    The public broadcasting system remains an easy target for Republican deception, demagogy and mischief.

  • Letters

    June 2, 2005 Subscribe

  • Good, Gray NPR

    May 5, 2005

    Once a quirky upstart, NPR is now soberly mainstream.

  • 'Playing Fair' at Columbia?

    April 28, 2005

  • The Mideast Comes to Columbia

    March 16, 2005

    The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.

  • Letter

    January 20, 2005 Subscribe

2004

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2001

  • He Has a Dream

    March 29, 2001

    Al Sharpton's leadership role in the black community is secure; his challenge now is to expand his constituency beyond that base.

2000

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» Act Now!

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