Nation Topics - Todd Gitlin | The Nation

As alleged spy conspiracies go, the case against Izzy is thinner than Paris Hilton.

Historian Rick Perlstein explores the resentment and polarization sparked by the Nixon era's cultural and political strife.

Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?

Five years into the Bush Administration, the press corps still can't figure out how to handle the White House's primary media management tactic: lying.

If you missed the 1995 CUNY "Question of Identity" conference, the issue
of October magazine devoted to it, the "remarkable" essay on the
same subject in Diacritics or--even worse

New York City

Todd Gitlin uses patriotism to wallop the radical left in The
Intellectuals and the Flag.

Even so-called liberal publications frequently tilt rightward.

Many pundits predicted that the peace movement would dry up once war
began, and indeed polls show that American support for the war rose to
as high as 71 percent after its launch.