‘The Nation’ Names David Marcus Literary Editor ‘The Nation’ Names David Marcus Literary Editor
Marcus takes over stewardship of the magazine’s storied books and arts section.
Sep 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Press Room
Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Is a Horror Movie—and the Monster Is Our National Security State Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Is a Horror Movie—and the Monster Is Our National Security State
For Trump to have these instruments of power would be a catastrophe.
Sep 19, 2016 / Juan Cole
A Report From the Day After Trump Wins A Report From the Day After Trump Wins
Cheap flights to Mexico, a new currency, and other developments.
Sep 16, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan
Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Sep 15, 2016 / Joshua Clover
Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’ Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’
Stone on his new Snowden biopic, Dave Zirin on Colin Kaepernick, and Margo Jefferson on Negroland.
Sep 15, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Black as We Wanna Be Black as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
Sep 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Matthew McKnight
A Lion in Winter A Lion in Winter
Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.
Sep 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon
How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas? How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?
The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons.
Sep 13, 2016 / William D. Hartung
Who Freed the Slaves? Who Freed the Slaves?
For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
Sep 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie McCurry
John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena