Mitt Doesn’t Think That Nearly Half the People In This Country Are Moochers After All Mitt Doesn’t Think That Nearly Half the People In This Country Are Moochers After All
After weeks of acknowledging only that his “47 percent” remarks were “not elegantly stated,” Mitt Romney now says that they were “just completely wrong.” —News reports He was, he says, completely wrong; To care for everyone is vital. He’s singing now a different song, And “Etch A Sketch” is that song’s title.
Oct 11, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals Exit Stage Left: The FBI and Student Radicals
How in 1960s Berkeley the state waged a two-front war to stamp out opponents, real and imagined, to its rule.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Steve Wasserman
Shelf Life Shelf Life
A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven; Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy.
Oct 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960 Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.
Oct 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again Ralph Nader, ‘Lone Ranger,’ Rides Again
Nader’s The Seventeen Solutions is a subversive primer that should be read in every high school civics class.
Oct 4, 2012 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Remembering Eric Hobsbawm Remembering Eric Hobsbawm
Hobsbawm’s life and writings will long serve as an inspiration to those who believe that a knowledge of history is essential to working for a better world.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives
“After 9/11, the neocons captured one Republican president who was naïve about the world. Now…they have captured another would-be Republican president and vice president, both jejune about the world.” —Maureen Dowd, The New York Times Advisers to Mitt from the neocon right Believe that America must show its might. Though draft dodgers all, they’re in favor of force— With other folks’ kids on the front lines, of course. Through Romney’s campaign, they have all slithered back— The people who brought you the war in Iraq.
Oct 3, 2012 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel
A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self Breadwinner Conservatism: On Robert O. Self
How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist Raw Judicial Power: On William Rehnquist
The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.
Oct 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell