Linguistic Currency Linguistic Currency
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
Nov 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Deficit Hawk Hysteria Deficit Hawk Hysteria
The time to pay down the deficit will come only after the economy recovers.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
The End of the Story? The End of the Story?
Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lars T. Lih
Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989 Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989
The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Generation That Failed The Generation That Failed
Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Slavenka Drakulic
Gorbachev on 1989 Gorbachev on 1989
A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.
Oct 28, 2009 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’ ‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’
The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.
Oct 28, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Down Side of Thinking Positive The Down Side of Thinking Positive
Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich presents Bright Sided, her new book about the negative aspect of positive thinking.
Oct 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv
Cliff’s False Notes Cliff’s False Notes
Who was to blame for Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes autobiography? Irving, for sure, but don't forget the publishing industry.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Lam Markmann
British-Style Fakery British-Style Fakery
Thomas Chatterton was the balloon boy of eighteenth-century British literary circles.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Horace Gregory