Shelf Life Shelf Life
Insurrections of the Mind thinks insurrections ought to happen only in the mind.
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Letters Letters
Waiting for snow in Havana… Rough Rider… Kreitner replies… lowlifes prowl the Net… pri$on$ for profit…
Oct 28, 2014 / Letters / Our Readers and Richard Kreitner
76 Years Ago: Fairy Tales of the Economic Family, Recovering From Munich, a Letter From an Arab Communist 76 Years Ago: Fairy Tales of the Economic Family, Recovering From Munich, a Letter From an Arab Communist
Snippets from The Nation of October 29, 1938.
Oct 27, 2014 / Back Issues / Back Issues and Richard Kreitner
The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week The Gutsy, Radical Journalism of Andy Kopkind, Who Died 20 Years Ago This Week
Definitive assessments of Ronald Reagan and “the warrior state,” plus early looks at Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton, and zeitgeist-defining essays on “cold war l...
Oct 24, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World ‘If I Were Dictator’: Writers in the ’30s Plot for a Better World
A forerunner of The Guardian’s current series, “King or Queen for a Day.”
Oct 21, 2014 / Back Issues / Back Issues and Richard Kreitner
When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’ When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw ‘Wised-Up Young People’ on a ‘Globalized Globe’
And a DC lawyer reflects on his essay from 1984, when Hong Kong was “full of life.”
Oct 7, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death 10 ‘Nation’ Articles on the Roosevelts, From TR’s Early Days to Eleanor’s Death
Contemporaneous accounts of the Roosevelts ranging over seventy years.
Oct 2, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner
‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland ‘If I Were A Scotchman I Too Should Be Conceited’: Henry James and Others on Scotland
A century and a half of writing on the always-possibly-imminent break-up of the United Kingdom.
Sep 18, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Hate To Say We Told You So: NATO Expansion Edition Hate To Say We Told You So: NATO Expansion Edition
The whole spat between Russia and the West could easily have been avoided.
Sep 8, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Three Poems to Get You Through the Drought Three Poems to Get You Through the Drought
"Outside, the ground separates, / breaking open like sores..."
Sep 3, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues