James Joyce’s Untamable Power James Joyce’s Untamable Power
Censors thought it dirty and rebellious, but what makes Ulysses radical is its dramatization of the unending conflict between good and evil.
Jun 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / James Longenbach
Free to Choose? Free to Choose?
How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.
Jun 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sophia Rosenfeld
The Best Years of Their Lives The Best Years of Their Lives
Why World War II offered Hollywood directors an escape into reality.
Jun 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
Letters Letters
Bitcoin, bitcoin, going so fast… students keep up the pressure… teachers held in the rubber room… for women only… Cold War déjà vu (all ov...
Jun 3, 2014 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3328 Puzzle No. 3328
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Jun 3, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Students Blockade for Trans Justice, Dish 18,000 Red Squares and Push California to Divest From Guns Students Blockade for Trans Justice, Dish 18,000 Red Squares and Push California to Divest From Guns
As the semester ends, direct action rages on.
Jun 3, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Justice for Black Trans Women: An Interview With Laverne Cox Justice for Black Trans Women: An Interview With Laverne Cox
“Far too often trans women don’t have justice,” transgender television star Laverne Cox tells The Nation. “I’m obviously not one for locking people up...
Jun 3, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Turn the NRA’s Weapon Against It Turn the NRA’s Weapon Against It
The right’s long, assiduous and destructive march through the courts and the court of public opinion has, perversely, illuminated a path forward for their opponents.
Jun 3, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Remembering and Misremembering Tiananmen Remembering and Misremembering Tiananmen
The Nation published one of the few accounts of what actually happened in Tiananmen Square twenty-five years ago.
Jun 3, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
How Is This Corporate Flack Running for Congress As an ‘Outsider’? How Is This Corporate Flack Running for Congress As an ‘Outsider’?
Matt Miller has received hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work for PR and consultancy firms, yet the LA Times characterizes him as outside the system.
Jun 3, 2014 / Lee Fang