Baldwin published his first piece in The Nation, and for many years thereafter continued to attack a system he thought as close to anarchy as to martial law.

Crucifixion was the punishment that Rome reserved for the crime of sedition.

In our first issue, just after the Civil War, we wrote that in 89 years of celebrating the Fourth of July, never before did Americans have more to rejoice about on Independence Day; in 1991, we asked 100 contributors for their definitions of patriotism.

Sofia Coppola’s new movie doesn’t move its audience to question these celebrity-obsessed thieves—and it should.