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Consumer Climates (Books & Arts, Climate Change)

Climate change and its political repercussions.

Michael T. Klare
A Question (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
Henry David Thoreau statue
Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry (Climate Change, Literature, Philosophy)

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson
Brain scan
Adventures in Neurohumanities (Books & Arts, Science, Fiction)

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Alissa Quart
photo of Friedrich Hayek in his study, 1960
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek (Books & Arts, Economics, Philosophy)

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

Corey Robin
Taylor Swift at the Z100 Jingle Ball, New York City, 2012
Red Country: On Taylor Swift (Books & Arts, Music, Pop & Circumstance)

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?

Joshua Clover
Barbara Bush on White House Dynasties (Humor)
Calvin Trillin
MoMA
MoMA's Demolition Derby (Architecture)

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

Barry Schwabsky
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink,  civil wars, Asif Ali Zardari
With Friends Like These: On Pakistan (Books & Arts, Foreign Policy, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action, World)

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Christian Parenti
Portrait of Charlie Parker
Post-White? On 'Blues for Smoke' (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.

Barry Schwabsky

Blogs

Nothing New Under the Wingnut Sun: 'Textbook Wars'
Rick Perlstein

When conservatives challenge curricula like they did last week in Fairfax County, Virginia, they reveal fundamental tensions in liberal education that aren’t going away.

February 11, 2013
Barenboim Joins Arab and Israeli Musicians in a Tribute to Edward Said
Greg Mitchell

A collaborative musical project he helped found carries on the Nation contributor’s legacy.

January 30, 2013
Nick Turse: The US Military Regularly Killed Civilians in Vietnam
Nation in the News

A new book shows that incidents like the My Lai massacre were part of the widescale killing of non-combatants.

January 30, 2013
'Dirty Wars,' Featuring Jeremy Scahill, Wins a Top Prize at Sundance
Greg Mitchell

The documentary on covert operations around the world takes home the Cinematography award.

January 27, 2013
Positively Folk Street: The Coen Brothers Return With a Film on Greenwich Village in the Early 1960s
Greg Mitchell

The promising new film is said to be based on the memoir of folkie Dave Van Ronk.

January 25, 2013
Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946
Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012
'Django Unchained': Quentin Tarantino’s Answer to Spielberg’s 'Lincoln'
Jon Wiener

In one film, grateful black people; in the other, the vengeful ones.

December 25, 2012
Watching 'The House I Live In' on Rikers Island
Liliana Segura

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is on a mission to show his Sundance-award winning movie, The House I Live In, to prisoners across the country. On a Friday in December, he went to New Yor}ks biggest jail.

December 21, 2012
Rhyme Is All I've Got: A Q&A With Calvin Trillin
Jon Wiener

How do you rhyme “Obama” with “Yokahama”?

December 16, 2012
'Zero Dark Thirty' Raises Dark Memories
Michelle Dean

What's really bothering us is not whether torture works but that Americans are torturers.

December 14, 2012
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