Jeet Heer

National Affairs Correspondent

@HeerJeet

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The GuardianThe New Republic, and The Boston Globe.

Free Dr. Seuss!

Free Dr. Seuss! Free Dr. Seuss!

Corporate ownership of his classic works shouldn’t prevent us from having a grown-up conversation about racism and children’s literature.

Apr 7, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

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Letters From the March 5/12, 2021, Issue Letters From the March 5/12, 2021, Issue

Along the Texas border… Leveling up… In the vicinity of bigotry (web only)…

Mar 23, 2021 / Letters / Our Readers and Jeet Heer

The Importance of Logging Off

The Importance of Logging Off The Importance of Logging Off

How Neera Tanden’s hard-punching tweets knocked her right out of Joe Biden’s cabinet.

Mar 22, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

Massage Parlor Atlanta Shooting

A Mainstream Mass Murderer A Mainstream Mass Murderer

Emerging evidence about the Atlanta shooter paints a picture of young man imbued with distressingly common American ideas about race and gender.

Mar 19, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Is at the Apex of His Power Bernie Sanders Is at the Apex of His Power

The stimulus bill shows how much Sanders has changed the Democratic Party on domestic policy. Foreign policy is the next hurdle.

Mar 17, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Communist Party Congress

Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus

It is folly to use China as a bogeyman to help unite America and revive NATO.

Mar 15, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Glenn Gould

In the Vicinity of Genius In the Vicinity of Genius

How a friendship with Glenn Gould created an unlikely cultural critic.

Mar 12, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Lincoln Project

A Fraud, Not a Lincoln A Fraud, Not a Lincoln

Liberals need a reckoning with the fortune they wasted on Never Trump charlatans.

Mar 10, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Two Cheers for Joe Manchin

Two Cheers for Joe Manchin Two Cheers for Joe Manchin

Democrats should let the West Virginian have his small victories while they pass big bills.

Mar 8, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow

Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow Don’t Stop Thinking About (Tom) Tomorrow

Cartoonist Dan Perkins increasingly turns to the iconography of science fiction to keep pace with the absurdity of the moment.

Mar 5, 2021 / Jeet Heer

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