Nation Topics - George Orwell | The Nation

How the intelligence community is creating a new American world.

With a dry, sharp, ironic voice—Christopher Hitchens graced The Nation’s pages from 1978 to 2006. The best of his articles, columns and reviews are collected here. 

Books are the only homeland of the true writer, books that may sit on shelves or in the memory.

Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.

The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.

Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.

The United States is coming ever closer to a state that matches the Orwellian slogan from 1984: war is peace.

A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.

Part of the Air Force's new "above all" vision of full-spectrum dominance, America's emerging cyber force has control fantasies that would impress George Orwell.

Susie Linfield | The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.