Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press Nobody Thought It Likely to Succeed: Reading Our 20th Anniversary Issue as the 150th Goes to Press
“To say that it never went wrong would be to make a claim which, even if well grounded, nobody would acknowledge,” the magazine’s founding editor humble-bragged b...
Mar 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?
Mar 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
I’ve Got a Little List, Continued I’ve Got a Little List, Continued
The best TV shows, albums and concerts: it's all inside today's Altercation.
Mar 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria
“They must learn to avoid the temptation of crushing the voices of criticism,” a writer in The Nation observed.
Mar 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?
Mar 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
The Great Chastening The Great Chastening
For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney
‘Insoumission’ ‘Insoumission’
The categorical imperative “Do Not Draw the Prophet” clashes with the thousand nuances of art.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stéphane Delorme
Impossible Standards Impossible Standards
The poems and a new biography of James Laughlin tells of his public success as a publisher and his private disappointments.
Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adam Plunkett
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?
Feb 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation
The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War
Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.
Feb 25, 2015 / Feature / George Black