Today in history—and how The Nation covered it.
“This is the story of a man struck down on his way to becoming a revolutionary and a liberator of his people.”
"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty, and Christian teaching."
"The decision was a fine antidote to the blight of McCarthyism and kindred fevers."
"A vast enthusiasm for new laws and a vast indifference after their enactment is very much the American [way]."
“A gender (or racial) breakthrough at the top of any powerful institution is a welcome sight. But…”
"Jewish authorities…have set up an agency to control the properties of Arabs who fled as the Jews took over; businesses are being managed where possible; vineyards and other farms are being tended and their produce used, but the assets conserved for the legal owners."
“His face was puffed and sore. He dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief, revealing bruised knuckles. …He sat dazed, stupefied from punishment. Again he dabbed his eyes.”
"There were not men in England strong enough or stupid enough or obstructive enough to stop her."
“Marley seduced Babylon with a beat and a hard-won moral authority that no pop music figure before or since has managed to achieve.”
Karl Marx himself derided Woodhull as “a banker’s woman, free-lover, and general humbug.”