This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Debating the JFK Legacy, in Real Time
Was there more to JFK than a coiffure arranged by facing south in a strong east wind?
Nov 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Get Happy!! Get Happy!!
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Life and Times of Eric Hobsbawm
Ramachandra Guha’s essay in next week’s issue is only the latest in a long line of critical appreciations of the late historian’s work to be published in The Nati...
Nov 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Emily Brady’s Humboldt explains why the legalization of pot could cause the biggest economic bust in California’s history.
Oct 30, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Kate Murphy
Eric Alterman Replies to Max Blumenthal’s Letter Eric Alterman Replies to Max Blumenthal’s Letter
The debate continues...
Oct 28, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
History’s Sinkhole History’s Sinkhole
How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself?
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Denise Levertov’s poetic communion with the world.
Oct 22, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
The ‘I Hate Israel’ Handbook The ‘I Hate Israel’ Handbook
Max Blumenthal’s carelessly constructed case against the Jewish state won’t help the occupation’s victims.
Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Why Tea Partiers Think They’re Winning Why Tea Partiers Think They’re Winning
The columnists they read all share their views. Talk-radio is where they get their news. They spurn the facts objective pollsters gather. They’re suffering, alas, from Bubble Blather.
Oct 16, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Long and Short of Memory The Long and Short of Memory
What the modern science of memory owes to the amnesiac patient H.M.
Oct 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Charles Gross