Founding Prospectus Founding Prospectus
The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect or body.
Mar 23, 2015 / The Nation
The Radical Future of Film The Radical Future of Film
A more convivial, expansive and life-affirming future is with us now—and the movies can help take us there.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘Nation’ Editor in the Gilded Age: Communism Will Lead to Smoking at Funerals and Mating in the Streets ‘Nation’ Editor in the Gilded Age: Communism Will Lead to Smoking at Funerals and Mating in the Streets
Whatever power there is anywhere is to be lodged in the hands of the most stupid and incapable.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / E.L. Godkin
For the Jews—Life or Death? For the Jews—Life or Death?
An appeal for help from 1944.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / I.F. Stone
A Report From Occupied Territory A Report From Occupied Territory
The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / James Baldwin and Carrie Mae Weems
1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can 1995–2005: Our Enemies Cannot Defeat Us—Only We Can
Nation writers on sensationalist art, financial deregulation, September 11, The Sopranos, Texas, the Iraq war and reactionary conservatism.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
‘Why Do They Hate Us?’ ‘Why Do They Hate Us?’
It’s too easy to condemn the right’s populist attacks on Muslims—especially with so many left-wing atheists and liberal hawks joining the party.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Moustafa Bayoumi
When Leftists Become Conservatives When Leftists Become Conservatives
It sure is a bracing feeling for the chair-bound intellectual to imagine himself the drivetrain in the engine of history.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Rick Perlstein
Toward a Third Reconstruction Toward a Third Reconstruction
A conversation on The Nation, race and history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Eric Foner, Darryl Pinckney, Mychal Denzel Smith, Isabel Wilkerson and Pat...
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Engendered Engendered
The trans community is coming out—and bringing with it a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Mark Gevisser