This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics
Arendt's life and work have been debated in our pages possibly more than those of any other twentieth-century philosopher.
Nov 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Alec Baldwin Is an Embarrassment Alec Baldwin Is an Embarrassment
The actor and MSNBC host has a history of unhinged homophobia. So why does he keep getting a pass?
Nov 15, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
The Man Who Knew Almost Everything The Man Who Knew Almost Everything
Inside the great social historian Eric Hobsbawm there was an aesthete waiting to come out.
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ramachandra Guha
Behind the Storm Behind the Storm
Was World War I the outcome of elite machinations?
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra
Roman Holidays Roman Holidays
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty; Alexander Sokurov’s Faust; Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath
Nov 12, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The New Public’ on Poverty and Education ‘The New Public’ on Poverty and Education
The New Public offers a powerful look at poverty’s impact on education.
Nov 11, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time
Was there more to JFK than a coiffure arranged by facing south in a strong east wind?
Nov 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’ Arthur Danto: A Critic With ‘a Beatific Sense of Wonder’
If, in an age of mechanical reproduction, art had lost its aura, he restored that aura; he enchanted an unenchanted world.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
Get Happy!! Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears