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 / 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 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I
The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.
Aug 5, 2014 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over Forty Years Later, Our ‘Long National Nightmare’ Is Far From Over
Watergate itself is “smoking gun” proof of that old axiom about the corruption of power.
Aug 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History ‘Gross Cruelty and Fraud’ in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Brief History
The quagmire of the Vietnam War was built on a “queasy foundation of fact and myth.”
Jul 31, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914 Great War: The Insane and Familiar ‘War Madness’ of 1914
"About nothing does the mob forget so quickly as about war."
Jul 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939 Bastille Day, Individualism and the Concept of Progress—in 1939
Reflections on the meaning of the French Revolution in the shadow of Adolf Hitler.
Jul 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James
“Have you a city that smells worse than Akron?”
Jul 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932 The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932
Margaret Sanger and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and John Dewey, oh my!
Jul 10, 2014 / Richard Kreitner
‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug ‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug
The politicians were happy, if nobody else.
Jul 1, 2014 / Richard Kreitner