May 27, 2013 Issue

Cover art by: design by Milton Glaser Incorporated

Feature

Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson
The Courage to Fight Climate Change

James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him.

James Hansen and Joseph Romm
Adventures in Neurohumanities

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Alissa Quart
Fight for the Soul of the City: The Battle Over Buses in Los Angeles

Progressive activists can learn important lessons from a successful grassroots campaign against transit racism.

Eric Mann

Editorial

‘Nation’ Notes

Introducing Wen Stephenson
The Nation
Noted

John Nichols on CISPA’s opponents, Cos Tollerson on Brazil’s stadium controversy, Allison Kilkenny on Occupy the Pipeline
Various Contributors
Why Arming Syria’s Rebels Is Still a Bad Idea

“Humanitarian” intervention would only deepen the humanitarian disaster.

the Editors
The Rebellion Against High-Stakes Testing

Resistance is growing, and with good reason—test mania delivers few benefits and often harms the students it’s meant to help.

David L. Kirp
The Price: Sex, Death and Dhaka

Someone somewhere must die for the pleasure someone somewhere else takes in a $4.95 bikini top.

JoAnn Wypijewski
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Column

A Question

Calvin Trillin
Rupert Murdoch: Journalism’s Jack the Ripper

Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?

Eric Alterman
Globalization’s Scapegoats

The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.

Gary Younge
Who Gets Blamed for Globalization?

The recent victories of the right-wing, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party says more about our scapegoats than about its long-term prospects.

Gary Younge

Books & the Arts

Thoreau’s Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

Wen Stephenson
Adventures in Neurohumanities

Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
Alissa Quart
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

Corey Robin
Red Country: On Taylor Swift

Profligate, prolific, towering over the landscape: Is Taylor Swift China?
Joshua Clover
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