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February 3, 2023
Today’s GOP Is the Totalitarian Force It Claims to Oppose
The right’s intrusion into private life is exactly the characteristic of modern authoritarianism decried by 20th-century conservatives.
Chris Lehmann
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January 9, 2023
Hannah Arendt Was Really a Prophet Against Conformity
To the question of how totalitarian methods could ever draw the compliance of free citizens, she replied: through the enchantment of success.
David Bromwich
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May 23, 2020
The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
As China moves to impose a law that would criminalize dissent, Hong Kongers are facing a dark new era.
Wilfred Chan
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September 10, 2019
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March 29, 2018
Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci
The filmmaker on his latest film The Death of Stalin, his own politics, and how satirists ought to respond to President Trump.
Joseph Hogan
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January 3, 2017
Welcome to the One-Party State
Republicans control the House, Senate, and presidency. It’s time we start calling this what it is.
Tom Engelhardt
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December 1, 2016
Is America Poised to Become the Most Dangerous Country on Earth?
Donald Trump’s administration—filling up with racists, Islamophobes, and billionaires—already has the feel of an increasingly militarized, autocratic government-in-the-making.
Tom Engelhardt
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November 30, 2016
Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment
“We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams,” a Nation writer said in 1992.
Richard Kreitner
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January 8, 2016
Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk
We all know about Norman Rockwell. But it was Szyk who best conveyed the life-or-death urgency of the struggle against fascism.
Allison Claire Chang
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October 30, 2015
Sheldon Wolin, 1922–2015
The late scholar and Nation contributor brought left-leaning political philosophy to the fore.
Richard Kreitner