Nation Topics - Leon Wieseltier | The Nation

Peter Beinart's stinging critique of the American Jewish establishment's failure to defend democracy in Israel comes not a moment to soon.

When the accusation (anti-Semitism) says more about the accuser (The New Republic) than the accused (Andrew Sullivan).

Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.

How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.

All the warmongering that's fit to print.

Consider the plight of the embattled liberal hawks and their lonely struggle to discredit the left.

Adam Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate details the trials of
a very smug and special class of parents raising children in
post-9/11 New York.

Maureen Dowd has done her best to declare feminism dead. But by
insisting that men are scared of spunky successful women, it doesn't
occur to her that she is promoting, rather than reporting on, the
problem she describes.

After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent
something of an eclipse.

There are principled differences within the progressive community about the war in Yugoslavia, including the use of ground troops.