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The Past Ahead of Us
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Noted.
The I-word, back on the table; Fannie Lou Hamer and the Democrats.
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For a New Economics
The tepid platform Democrats will adopt in Denver isn't a new social contract, but it does go places Republicans never will. Let's hope Obama does better.
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1988: A Charismatic Candidate
Flawed and flamboyant, the charismatic Jesse Jackson wasn't the perfect candidate, but his idealism led The Nation to endorse his bid for the White House.
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1908: The First Denver Convention
When Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate, The Nation was skeptical.
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Noted.
Naomi Sobel on efforts to improve conditions at the notorious Postville, Iowa kosher slaughterhouse; Nation correspondents on Obama's world tour.
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The Nation Sues the Government
The Nation joins the ACLU and several other organizations and attorneys in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the FISA act.
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Noted.
Ari Melber tracks the continuing fight over FISA; Stuart Klawans remembers Thomas Disch.
Overall, much of Who Owns History? stands as an argument for public engagement, and touches on issues such as globalization, social reconciliation and national identity. "'American' is what philosophers call an 'essentially contested concept,'" Foner observes, and he cautions in his chapter on "American Freedom in a Global Age" that, in the shadow of the Reagan revolution, "the dominant constellation of definitions seems to consist of a series of negations--of government, of social responsibility, of a common public culture," amid the tightening web of economic and cultural ties termed "globalization." Foner says that "the relationship between globalization and freedom may be the most pressing political and social problem of the twenty-first century."
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