Nation Topics - Dwight Macdonald | The Nation

Dwight MacDonald, Jana Prikryl

Three pieces from The Nation's archives offering brisk and incisive critiques of the magazines Time, Fortune and Life.

Dwight Macdonald’s panic about Midcult now seems less prescient than misplaced.

Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.
 

A half-century later, re-evaluating the works of C. Wright Mills, in The Politics of Truth.

An exhibit of New Yorker cartoons at the Morgan Library shows that, for the rich, America itself is enemy territory.

Edmund Wilson's politics have long been criticized, but his views were more nuanced than you might think.

Two new biographies of Clement Greenberg take the measure of an ambitious art critic who had a knack for predicting success.

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

Voting irregularities in the 2004 election demonstrate the urgency of election reform.