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Rome's Cassandra: On George Weigel (Books & Arts, Religion, Conservatives and the American Right)

The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.

Paul Baumann
Suet (Books & Arts, Poems)
Alison Stine
photo of Frank Bidart
Deliriums and Descents (Books & Arts, Poetry)

In Metaphysical Dog, a poet continues his unending, obsessive arguments with himself.

Robert Boyers
A Week in the White House (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Cartoon, Screwing the World (1984), by David Levine
In Our Orbit (Arts and Entertainment, Books & Arts, History, Humor)

Victor Navasky’s The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power

John Palattella
Consumer Climates (Books & Arts, Climate Change)

Climate change and its political repercussions.

Michael T. Klare
A Question (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Henry David Thoreau statue
Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry (Climate Change, Literature, Philosophy)

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson
Brain scan
Adventures in Neurohumanities (Books & Arts, Science, Fiction)

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Alissa Quart
photo of Friedrich Hayek in his study, 1960
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek (Books & Arts, Economics, Philosophy)

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

Corey Robin

Blogs

AIDS and Imperialism: Karma and Colonial Crimes
Bob Dreyfuss

A new book shows that the HIV virus was triggered by wanton imperial depredations.

February 28, 2012
In Defense Of 'The Help'
Ilyse Hogue

Though complicated by controversy, a weekend in Los Angeles with thirty domestic workers underscores the power of Hollywood to propel social change. 

February 27, 2012
Melissa Harris-Perry: How 'The Help' Commodifies Black Women's Suffering
Melissa Harris-Perry

How does the movie The Help "photoshop" American history?

February 27, 2012
Whitney Houston: My Love Is Your Love
Dave Zirin

Whitney's death reminds us of a music industry that does not take care of its own.

February 13, 2012
Tom Paine Would Not Have Approved of Mitt Romney
John Nichols

Romney misattributed the key quote of his Florida victory speech to the pamphleteer. But that's hardly the only reason why Paine would have decried the Bain Capitalist.

February 1, 2012
'The Iron Lady': The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don't Need
Laura Flanders

In the new bio-pic, Margaret Thatcher's iron isn’t just rusty, it’s melted down into something soft and personal. The Iron Lady gives us Thatcher, the ABBA Version. It’s the last thing we need. 

January 4, 2012
Scott Sherman: Is the Renovation of New York's Public Library Modernization or Cultural Damage?
Nation in the News

Will the new president's mega-million-dollar makeover of the main library scare off scholars and leave the branches begging?

December 6, 2011
Miley Cyrus Comes Out for OWS
Peter Rothberg

&ldquotLiberty Walk,” the one percenter teen sensation’s catchy, if repetitive, remixed single sets her music to laudatory images from OWS encampments throughout the nation.

November 29, 2011
Top Ten Songs About Class
Peter Rothberg

Since every great protest movement needs its culture, here's my stab at a list of the ten best songs ever written about class and poverty in tribute to #OccupyWallStreet.

October 3, 2011
Top Ten Back-to-School Songs
StudentNation

An incomplete list of ten of the best songs ever written about school.

September 9, 2011
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