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Engraving depicting Athanasius Kircher
Kircher’s Cosmos: On Athanasius Kircher (Books & Arts, Science, Biography, Non-fiction)

How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime?

Paula Findlen
Now That April's Here (Books and the Arts)
Christina Robb
Hunter-Blatherer: On Jared Diamond (Books & Arts, Books and Ideas, Non-fiction, Society)

An unreliable anthropologist of traditional societies is a no less dubious diagnostician of the contemporary world.

Stephen Wertheim
survivalism
The Doomsday Prepper Caucus (Media Analysis, Conservatives and the American Right, Television)

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Reed Richardson
Republican Brawl (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
The Globe theater in London
Made in the USA? Letter From London (Books & Arts, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

Leo Robson
Paul Hoover
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Shelf Life, Poetry, Books and the Arts)

Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.

Ange Mlinko
Man In The Middle
Man in the Middle: On Philip Glass (Arts and Entertainment, Music, Theater, Books and the Arts)

Philip Glass’s new opera, The Perfect American, is a mix of bluster and inspiration.

Jonathan Blitzer
Kerry Washington
On the Politics of 'Scandal' (Gender and Sexuality, Television, Politics)

ABC’s hit show, created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington, is a truly original political soap opera.

Ken Tucker
One Issue That Seems to Be Getting Bipartisan Support in the Senate (Humor)
Calvin Trillin

Blogs

This Week in 'Nation' History: Reviewers Have Argued About 'Gatsby' Since 1925
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The debate surrounding Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is nothing new.

May 18, 2013
Why Does the Press Still Take the Heritage Foundation Seriously?
Eric Alterman

The think tank has long since compromised its intellectual integrity, yet the media continue to trumpet flawed reports like the latest one on immigration reform.

May 10, 2013
When Eleanor Roosevelt Got MGM to Fire Lionel Barrymore From a Pro-Bomb Epic
Greg Mitchell

 Another unusual fact about MGM's planned 1947 film on Truman and the bomb.

May 5, 2013
The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
'Cape Fear,' and Our Fear
Rick Perlstein

In the wake of 9/11 and Boston, is it even possible to imagine a movie that makes civil liberties an integral part of its dramatic arc?

April 23, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Whose Side Is ‘The Walking Dead’ On?
Leslie Savan

Cable TV’s top hit is used to justify every political point of view—right or left, pro-NRA or pro-gun control, even pro-sequester or pro-stimulus.

April 5, 2013
The Minutemen and the Mainstream Media
Rick Perlstein

A new book argues that the media failed to grasp the frightening extremism of the anti-immigrant border patrols of a few years ago—and wraps it in a thrilling true-crime tale.

April 3, 2013
Alex Gibney Interview on Early Media Controversy Over His WikiLeaks Film
Greg Mitchell

Julian Assange himself has criticized the film, but the director says Assange should watch it first.

April 3, 2013
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