Books and Ideas

Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson

Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU's self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.

Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

Explaining Michael Steele Explaining Michael Steele

What's his deal?

Apr 8, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Caller of the Dove A Caller of the Dove

In his poems, Mahmoud Darwish greeted even his own name warily, knowing it was something else he'd be forced to leave behind.

Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape

Martin Luther King's words in 1967 are still relevant to today's war, as the Wikileaks tape shows.

Apr 7, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders

Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF

 Organized labor takes on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a pair of new ads.

Apr 5, 2010 / The Notion / Ari Berman

On Right-Wing Apoplexy On Right-Wing Apoplexy

What caused this healthcare fit?

Mar 31, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Conscious Pariah A Conscious Pariah

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Popper

India Grapples with Freedom India Grapples with Freedom

This essay, from the August 23, 1947, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on I...

Mar 30, 2010 / Feature / Shiva Rao

The Catch The Catch

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a ratio...

Mar 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Algren

Poor Eric Massa Poor Eric Massa

He's in a pickle.

Mar 18, 2010 / Calvin Trillin

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