Letters Letters
Coining a word… is Christie history?… VISTA & the war on poverty… call it anti-inequality…
Feb 12, 2014 / Our Readers
Snapshot: Saving Diego Rivera in Detroit Snapshot: Saving Diego Rivera in Detroit
The Detroit Institute of Arts is fighting to prevent the sale of its collection, including Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals (1932–33), as the city recovers from bankruptcy. According to the DIA, Rivera considered this series of frescoes—which some critics condemned for its alleged blasphemy and Marxist propaganda—his most successful work.
Feb 12, 2014 / Detroit Institute of Arts
Women Break an Olympic Barrier, Keep Reproductive Organs Intact Women Break an Olympic Barrier, Keep Reproductive Organs Intact
It’s been ninety years since ski jumping became an Olympic sport. Today was the first time women could compete.
Feb 11, 2014 / Alec Luhn
From & Friends From & Friends
Failing upward at the Democratic Leadership Council with Al From.
Feb 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
Water and Soil, Grain and Flesh Water and Soil, Grain and Flesh
Walter Johnson reconsiders the connection between slavery and capitalism.
Feb 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn
Dave Zirin: NFL Executives ‘Sound Like Scared Children’ Dave Zirin: NFL Executives ‘Sound Like Scared Children’
According to Nation sports editor Dave Zirin, it’s NFL executives and not NFL players who are scared of having a gay player in the locker room.
Feb 11, 2014 / Press Room
Autumn Journal Autumn Journal
Gingerly the moon moves near the hilltop church and slides around the transept, slow, to peer inside the cloister. No: those are not friars there, but children… outside their nests. She rests against a brim of wind. Their wings are hurt… But lying in ordered rows of narrow beds they’re all asleep, as if they’re tired. Tired from flying, at least in dreams, and so in dreams their mothers hold them close against warm skin. The moon, she listens in. She doesn’t want to wake them, she only wants to see. And then she leaves, but rises high. She needs to make the hilltops gleam, and drape a sheen across the sea, but too she sends a beam back down to where the children sleep. And up she climbs, up through the sky, the high good sky, and searches far and wide to find the stars. Where are the stars? She scans the sky. Where can they be? She wants to tell the faultless virgin stars what she has seen. (translated from the Italian by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston)
Feb 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Giovanni Pascoli
Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin
How did an essential figure in the modern revival of liberal political philosophy end up pondering issues of theology?
Feb 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Rosen
Puzzle No. 3314 Puzzle No. 3314
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Feb 11, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Thousands of Young People Participate in Raleigh’s Moral Monday Thousands of Young People Participate in Raleigh’s Moral Monday
Raleigh's first Moral Monday march of the year draws a diverse group of activists including teachers, and members of the NAACP and Planned Parenthood.
Feb 11, 2014 / StudentNation / Tara Jeffries and StudentNation