The History of Equality: It’s Complicated The History of Equality: It’s Complicated
A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version o...
Nov 16, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Sits Down With “The Nation” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Sits Down With “The Nation”
In his first-ever interview with a US outlet, the Cuban president shares his thoughts on the future of Cuban socialism, the US blockade, and the economic difficulties facing the i...
Oct 28, 2023 / Editorial / D.D. Guttenplan and Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Market Radicals Who Want to Put an End to Democracy The Market Radicals Who Want to Put an End to Democracy
A conversation with the historian Quinn Slobodian about economic loopholes, the end of neoliberalism, and his new book Crack-Up Capitalism.
Oct 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Naomi Klein Explains the Problems With Left-Wing Silence Naomi Klein Explains the Problems With Left-Wing Silence
The author of Doppelganger wants us to find stories that can “replace the socialism of fools with the socialism of facts.”
Oct 6, 2023 / Q&A / Laura Flanders
Survivor Justice and Democracy: A Conversation With Kylie Cheung Survivor Justice and Democracy: A Conversation With Kylie Cheung
The Nation spoke with the journalist and author about the ways in which domestic violence and the ongoing attacks on bodily autonomy impede the democratic process.
Sep 15, 2023 / Editorial / Victoria Law
Kate Zambreno’s Lessons in Looking Kate Zambreno’s Lessons in Looking
A conversation about how the pandemic changed our relationship to the natural world, distrusting beauty, the challenges of writing about climate change, and her new book, The Ligh...
Sep 12, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham
Is Liberalism a Politics of Fear? Is Liberalism a Politics of Fear?
A conversation with Samuel Moyn about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview and his new book, Liberalism Against Itself.
Sep 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s
A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist.
Aug 28, 2023 / Q&A / Jon Wiener
Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money
A conversation with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton Jäger about why a “basic income” isn't such a progressive welfare idea.
Aug 23, 2023 / Editorial / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual
In 2014, Adam Shatz’s “Writers or Missionaries” appeared in The Nation, a piece about his relationship, as a Jewish American journalist, to the political conflicts in the Arab-spea…
Aug 15, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Howard Rosier