Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis directed the cultural reporting and criticism program at New York University and was a Freda Kirchwey fellow of the Nation Institute. Her book Don’t Think, Smile! Notes on a Decade of Denial (Beacon) was published in 1999.

PoliticsNovember 29, 2001

Bringing the Holy War Home

There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.

Ellen Willis
PoliticsSeptember 27, 2001

Dreaming of War

To imagine that this national emergency is good for us is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis
MediaMarch 15, 2001

Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.

Ellen Willis
PoliticsFebruary 23, 2001

Bully in the Pulpit?

Tom Hayden , Michael Eric Dyson , Ellen Willis , Michael Kazin , Frances Kissling , Arthur Hertzberg , Richard Parker , Jim Wallis and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
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PoliticsFebruary 1, 2001

Freedom From Religion

What’s at stake in faith-based politics

Ellen Willis
Non-fictionNovember 25, 1999

How Now, Iron Johns?

In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that “the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our society,

Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

PoliticsNovember 29, 2001

Bringing the Holy War Home

There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.

Ellen Willis

PoliticsSeptember 27, 2001

Dreaming of War

To imagine that this national emergency is good for us is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis

MediaMarch 15, 2001

Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.

Ellen Willis

PoliticsFebruary 23, 2001

Bully in the Pulpit?

Tom Hayden , Michael Eric Dyson , Ellen Willis , Michael Kazin , Frances Kissling , Arthur Hertzberg , Richard Parker , Jim Wallis and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

PoliticsFebruary 1, 2001

Freedom From Religion

What’s at stake in faith-based politics

Ellen Willis

Non-fictionNovember 25, 1999

How Now, Iron Johns?

In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that “the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our society,

Ellen Willis

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Ellen Willis

PoliticsNovember 29, 2001

There is a link between our own cultural conflicts and the logic of jihad.

PoliticsSeptember 27, 2001

To imagine that this national emergency is good for us is a dangerous mistake.

MediaMarch 15, 2001

Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.

PoliticsFebruary 23, 2001

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

PoliticsFebruary 1, 2001

What’s at stake in faith-based politics

Non-fictionNovember 25, 1999

In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that “the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our society,