Nation Topics - Cultural Criticism and Analysis | The Nation

Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.

Edward Rothstein separates Studs Terkel's politics from his oral history, proving he doesn't understand the man's legacy at all.

Veteran journalist Dick Meyer discusses America's love-hate relationship with itself.

Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène
Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.

Why do conservatives continue to feel oppressed by the "liberal elite"?

How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal.

Today's progressive message-makers can learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt's homey "fireside chats."

The US public is wonderfully diverse, but the arts are not equally accessible to all.

The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.

Using fear and the classic tools of persuasion, the Bush Administration has subverted American mythology and our national character.