Richard Kreitner

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Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer and the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union. His writings are at richardkreitner.com.

Chelsea Dreams

Chelsea Dreams Chelsea Dreams

Artists have become the shock troops of gentrification, even at the Chelsea Hotel.

Jun 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Great War: The Climate of June 1914

Great War: The Climate of June 1914 Great War: The Climate of June 1914

The first modern war created the modern Nation.

Jun 16, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Tawdry Politicking on D-Day Is as Old as the Day Itself

Tawdry Politicking on D-Day Is as Old as the Day Itself Tawdry Politicking on D-Day Is as Old as the Day Itself

A dispatch from the House of Representatives, June 6, 1944.

Jun 6, 2014 / Richard Kreitner

Bowe Bergdahl and the Honorable History of War Deserters

Bowe Bergdahl and the Honorable History of War Deserters Bowe Bergdahl and the Honorable History of War Deserters

The hateful commentary about the soldier’s return is motivated by fear of what his so-called desertion reveals.

Jun 5, 2014 / Richard Kreitner

A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912.

A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912. A Minimum Wage for Writers? ‘The Nation’ (Almost) Proposed It In 1912.

There is no avoiding the inherently alienating consequences of trying to earn a living through the production of words.

May 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Eyeing the Left Coast: ‘The Nation’ on California, in 1922 and 2003

Eyeing the Left Coast: ‘The Nation’ on California, in 1922 and 2003 Eyeing the Left Coast: ‘The Nation’ on California, in 1922 and 2003

‘Wide and luminous’ or ‘grid-locked and addled on speed’?

May 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

Come Explore the Treasure Chest That Is Our 1950 ‘Spring Books’ Issue

Come Explore the Treasure Chest That Is Our 1950 ‘Spring Books’ Issue Come Explore the Treasure Chest That Is Our 1950 ‘Spring Books’ Issue

Meditations on writers’ conferences, Schlesinger Jr. on America, an Auden poem.

May 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Susan Sontag on the Avant-Garde, Communism and the Left

The current production of Sontag:Reborn only begins to portray the complicated relationship between Susan Sontag and The Nation.

Jun 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

The Sons of Revolution and Steerage: On ‘City of Ambition’ The Sons of Revolution and Steerage: On ‘City of Ambition’

FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and rebuilding New York City during the New Deal.

Apr 18, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules In Our Orbit: My Lai Rules

Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

Feb 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner

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