Books and Ideas

The Two Nuernbergs The Two Nuernbergs

Twenty very little men are defendants in a very big trial.

Feb 26, 2008 / Feature / Peter de Mendelssohn

Art and Propaganda Art and Propaganda

Using fear and the classic tools of persuasion, the Bush Administration has subverted American mythology and our national character.

Feb 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Milton Glaser

Fourteen Little Words Fourteen Little Words

First Amendment biographer Anthony Lewis brings glad tidings: despite Bush, US commitment to free speech "is no longer in doubt."

Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

Chavez’s Fix Chavez’s Fix

Is Venezuela's president undoing his country's experiment in democracy?

Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Wilkinson

The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam

Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?

Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden

On One of the Sabbath-Gasbag Discussions, Robert Novak Says That Mike Huckabee May Have Remained in the Race to Bolster His Lecture Fee On One of the Sabbath-Gasbag Discussions, Robert Novak Says That Mike Huckabee May Have Remained in the Race to Bolster His Lecture Fee

The lure of filthy lucre on the campaign trail.

Feb 21, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky

"I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its ...

Feb 20, 2008 / Feature / Bertrand Russell

The History of Hope The History of Hope

Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.

Feb 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier

The Film We Dreamed The Film We Dreamed

In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.

Feb 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Revolutionary States Revolutionary States

Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.

Feb 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny

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