D.D. Guttenplan

Special Correspondent

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D.D. Guttenplan is a special correspondent for The Nation and the host of The Nation Podcast. He served as editor of the magazine from 2019 to 2025 and, prior to that, as an editor at large and London correspondent. His books include American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, The Nation: A Biography, and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry

The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

Feb 4, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Tony Blair Channels Piaf: Je Ne Regrette Rien Tony Blair Channels Piaf: Je Ne Regrette Rien

What did Tony Blair know, and when did he know it?

Jan 29, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists

How much should it matter to Americans that David Cameron, who will probably become the Prime Minister of Britain in May, recently took his party out of the main center-right group...

Oct 21, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan

Brighton Beach Postcard Brighton Beach Postcard

Brighton. Short of sashaying over the waves, or flying Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 (perhaps on loan from his good friend J.K. Rowling) into the Labour Party conference here yester...

Sep 30, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan

The Dog That Didn’t Bark The Dog That Didn’t Bark

  Though the punters (that's you, dear reader) aren't usually let in on the secret, it is a truth universally acknowledged among journalists that any story belonging exclusiv...

Jul 13, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan

Letters Letters

I.F. Stone, Secret Agent? Spy? Mole?

Silver Spring, Md.

Jul 1, 2009 / Eric Alterman, D.D. Guttenplan, and Our Readers

Letters Letters

R.I.P. Newspapers--but Not the News

Belmont, Mass.

May 27, 2009 / Eric Alterman, D.D. Guttenplan, Our Readers, Karen Rothmyer, and Michelle Orange

The Secret History of Izzy The Secret History of Izzy

I.F. Stone was not only a great reporter; he was a radical, an irritant to power.

May 13, 2009 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

Red Harvest: The KGB in America Red Harvest: The KGB in America

A new book on cold war espionage falsely accuses I.F. Stone of being a paid Soviet agent.

May 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

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