Culture

Time After Time Time After Time

Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...

Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

Langston Hughes on the real Harlem renaissance.

Mar 11, 2002 / Feature / Langston Hughes

The Senate’s Fighting Liberal The Senate’s Fighting Liberal

Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77. This 2002 Nation profile by the late Jack Newfield captures the essence of what this legend meant to the progressive movement.

Mar 7, 2002 / Feature / Jack Newfield

Tree-Huggers No Longer! Tree-Huggers No Longer!

It's official now: The United States has a policy on climate change. President Bush announced it on Valentine's Day at a government climate and oceans research center. "My approa...

Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Frank Ackerman

Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!

Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...

Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz

Balanchine’s Gemwork Balanchine’s Gemwork

 

Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Aloff

The Marvel of the Obvious The Marvel of the Obvious

"There are things/We live among 'and to see them/Is to know ourselves.'" These three lines are among the most stirring written by George Oppen, a poet whose modesty and honesty p...

Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Still Bad New Old Nixon The Still Bad New Old Nixon

It's been three decades since President Richard M.

Mar 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer

Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage Organizing for Social Change After Suffrage

Now that women have the vote, what will they do with it?

Mar 5, 2002 / Stella Crossley Daljord

Messenger Messenger

The birds stopped coming after the annuals died. I didn't realize how much I missed them until the bluebird Returned, lured by the burgundy haze of the fall pansies Pour...

Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Franklin

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