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The great Polish poet disclaimed grand political schemes in favor of irony, wit, skepticism and the individual.

The forty-ninth edition of the New York Film Festival.

In Bloodlands Timothy Snyder attempts to link the Holocaust to a syndrome of political killing endorsed by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

Peter Dreier's list of the fifty most influential progressives of the twentieth century honored the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream. But his list could only include a handful of all those who have contributed to this tradition. We asked our readers to nominate the American progressives who have made the biggest difference in the twentieth century.

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

Remembering Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010)—writer, publisher, boulevardier—and his quarterly, Grand Street.

Eyal Press on the passing of Tony Judt; Ari Berman on the movement against Citizens United

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

A discussion with the author of Ill Fares the Land about social democracy, trains and our desiccated ethical vocabulary.

Gordon S. Wood defends Jefferson--again.